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From: yilmaz on 13 Jun 2010 15:02
On Jun 13, 9:47 pm, Sean Woods <y...(a)etoyoc.com> wrote:
> On Jun 12, 5:37 am, yilmaz <yyyyil...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Hi, Please help me with the following problem. I have very little
> > experience with multidimensional arrays and need your advice.
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> > I have several lists like below from files comp-1, comp-2, and comp-3:
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> > {ADA} input {ft 0.23} {fg 0.9} {df 0.45} {gh 0.33} {hj 0.11} {jj
> > 0.345} {gg 0.6}
> > {DW} inout {ft 0.13}  {fg 0.19}   {df 0.5}   {gh 0.2}   {hj 0.14}  {jj
> > 0.53}  {gg 0.31}
> > ....
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> > that will be converted into a table like below:
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> > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------
> >               |         Comp-1                    |
> > Comp-2              | Comp-3
> > Items      ------------------------------------
> > |-------------------------    |---------------------------------
> >               |   ft       fg     df           gh    |  ft      fg
> > df   gh   | ft        fg       df     gh
> > --------------------------------------------------
> > |--------------------------------------------------------------
> > ADA       |   0.23     0.9    0.45    0.33  |  0.3    0.4  0.1 0.2   |
> > 0.22   0.44   0.66  0.8
> > DW        |   0.13     0.19   0.5     0.2    |  0.1    0.2  0.5 0.6
> > | 0.11   0.12   0.3   0.91
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> > ............................................................................ ................................................
> > ....
> > # more rows with data
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> > This table will first be created in an XML-like structure and will be
> > displayed by the application as a table above.
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> > I see an obvious pattern for using multidimensional arrays but not
> > sure how to do this row-by row to populate the XML-tree  ....
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> > For example, if I have the file comp-1 and the first row of the table
> > {ADA} input {ft 0.23} {fg 0.9} {df 0.45} {gh 0.33}
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> > Do I have to read those all individual items into the array one by
> > one?
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> > set row(comp1,ADA,ft) 0.23
> > set row(comp1,DW,ft) 0.13
> > ....
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> > and then write this into the XML file into appropriate tags?
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> > Please advise.
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> > Cheers!
> > -Yil
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> If you are using tcl8.5 (or tcl 8.4 with the dict extension) ...
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> dict set row comp1 ADA ft 0.23
> dict set row comp1 DW ft 0.12
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> The neat part is, $row ends up as a list that can be manipulated by
> the list commands or the dict command, dumped to a file, looped over,
> it's really quite nice.
>
> -Sean "The Hypnotoad" Woods

Thank you, Sean! I read the doc on dict but have not tried it yet.
Seems to be another good option to populate tables with data. Thank
you!
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