3 Replies Latest reply: Jan 12, 2013 10:15 AM by tobbelito RSS

    Fill an empty table with stuff.

    tobbelito Jan 7, 2013 1:30 PM

      Hi!

       

      So I'm in qvscript and trying to fill an empty table with new stuff through a loop and an if-statement. If the if-statement is true I call a sub (that I put first in the script) that creates a string with variables from the if-statement. So far so good. Then my problem is creating an empty table and filling it with new strings for each time the if-statement is fullfilled. Ideally I would like that the table had two columns, one for the new string coming in, and if the same string comes up twice, in the next column I would like it to be counted. I think this is known as a hash table... sort of

       

      So, how to do this? Do I create the empty table in the beginning of the script or in the Sub where each of the new strings are created? Any help would be much appreciated!

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        • Re: Fill an empty table with stuff.
          Gysbert Wassenaar
          Gysbert Wassenaar Jan 7, 2013 1:58 PM (in response to tobbelito)

          This creates an empty table:

           

          NewTable:

          Load '' as Field1, '' as Field2

          autogenerate 0;

           

          In a loop you can do something like this:

           

          for i=1 to 100

               if 1=1 then

                    NewTable:

                    load 'a' as Field1, 123 as Field2

                    autogenerate 1;

               end if

          next i

            • Re: Fill an empty table with stuff.
              tobbelito Jan 7, 2013 4:18 PM (in response to Gysbert Wassenaar )

              Hey Gysbert, thanx again!

               

              Can't get it to work though. I'm trying sort of like this:

               

              //Creating the empty table

               

              NewTable:

              Load '' as Field1, '' as Field2

              autogenerate 0;

               

              //My sub where i want to fill the table every time its called. Note that I want to fill one of the fields with pos, which is a string that is different each time it's called. Eventually I would like the second Field to have the count of the different pos coming in.

               

              Sub crtTw(a,b)

                   let pos=a & ',' & b;

                   load pos as Field1, 123 as Field2

                   autogenerate 1;

              end sub

               

              //My loop where my sub get's called when a certain condition is met.

               

              for i=0 to 100

                  let s=Peek('RECEIPT_NUMBER',i,'table1');

                  let t=Peek('RECEIPT_NUMBER',i+1,'table1');

                 

                  if s=t then

                      let a=Peek('%Key_Trans_Item',i,'table1');

                      let b=Peek('%Key_Trans_Item',i+1,'table1');

                     

                      CALL crtTw(a,b);

                     

                     

                     

                  ENDIF

                 

              NEXT i

               

               

              Not sure if this is comprehensible, but I'll throw it out anyway!

            • Re: Fill an empty table with stuff.
              tobbelito Jan 12, 2013 10:15 AM (in response to tobbelito)

              bumpin this!