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Rahab
Wizard
Joined: 22 Mar 2007
Posts: 2320
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 Posted: Wed Jun 16, 2010 2:04 am
[3.19d] Interesting feature I didn't expect
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#addkey test1 alpha {x=1|y=2|z=3}
#show @test1
#show %expanddb(@test2.alpha,";")
#show %expandlist(@test2.alpha,";")
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%expanddb() nicely handles a nested list. What I didn't expect was that %expandlist() would also do something nice--formatting a list of just the values. I never tried %expandlist() on a db variable under old versions, so I don't know whether it's always done that. But I suspect that it's a side-effect of the json tables. I like it.
If %expandlist() worked like this on db variables in old versions, just consider this a confirmation that it works on nested lists. |
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GeneralStonewall
Magician
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
Posts: 364
Location: USA
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Posted: Wed Jun 16, 2010 2:11 am
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Zugg definitely made some changes to both of them. I believe it's somewhere in the version histories. Btw, 3.19e is out.
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Zugg
MASTER
Joined: 25 Sep 2000
Posts: 23379
Location: Colorado, USA
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Posted: Wed Jun 16, 2010 2:12 am
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You have a typo in your script above ;) I'm assuming you mean @test1.alpha in your last two lines?
Yes, this is a change in how lists work on database variables. In the past, if you fetched the item of a database variable, you would get "key=value". With the new tables, you only get the "value" and not the key.
Some people will like it and some people will hate it. Glad somebody likes it. Returning "key=value" just seemed kludgy to me and just didn't work like other languages with associative arrays. |
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