Advice about readable 2-dimensional array with comments

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I want to declare a (static) array which will get big. Example with two rows, imagine they will be 30 eventually after I fill them in:

Local $stringArray[2][2] = _
[ _
["This is the first item", "Description of it goes here"], _
["Another one ...", "Description again here"] _
]

That line breaking thing is annoying as hell. Another problem I faced is that I want to insert comments in the array, I tried this:

Local $stringArray[2][2] = _
[ _
;This is a comment for the first item
["This is the first item", "Description of it goes here"], _
;Comment for the second item
["Another one ...", "Description again here"] _
]

Finally I had to do this:

Local $stringArray[2][2] = _
[ _
["This is the first item", "Description of it goes here"], _   ;This is a comment for the first item
["Another one ...", "Description again here"] _   ;Comment for the second item
]

 

Is there a way to make it more readable and maybe avoid the underscores?

[kylomas]

inverted,

Is this more readable....?

#include <array.au3>

Local $stringArray[2][2]

$stringArray[0][0] = "This is the first item"       ; first item
$stringArray[0][1] = "Description of it goes here"  ; description
$stringArray[1][0] = "Another one ..."              ; comment
$stringArray[1][1] = "Description again here"       ; comment

_arraydisplay($stringArray)

kylomas

[orbs]

@Inverted

i would put the content of the array in a text file (pipe-delimited is may favorite) so it can be easily retrieved by _FileReadToArray. then you won't be needing to update your code each and every time the data changes. for example:

This is the first item|Description of it goes here|This is a comment for the first item
Another one|Description again here|Comment for the second item

note that you will get the comment at the third column of the array, which your script can simply ignore.

EDIT: and if i wasn't happy with the comment being in the array, i would fork _FileReadToArray and modify it to ignore the last element of each row. not too hard me thinks.

Edited January 26, 2016 by orbs

[Inverted]

Thanks for your answers , people.