2 Arrays with a lot of data

[igorm]

Hi,

I have a 2 arrays which sometimes contain up to 4165 elements. I need to write all those elements to text file. I'm using this:

$array1 = stringsplit($mydata1, "=")
$array2 = stringsplit($mydata2, "=")

Arrays have same numbers of elements so next part of code is this:

for $i=1 to array1 [0]
iniwrite("textfile.txt", "File", array1[$i], $array2[$i])
next

This works fine, but it's painfully slow. Is there any way I can speed this up, or there is some other way I can export all data from array to text file?

Exported text file needs to have INI file form:

[File]
Key=Value

Thanks in advance for any help.

Cheers

[DjDeep00]

@igorm...Try _FileWriteFromArray().

[PsaltyDS]

Hi,

I have a 2 arrays which sometimes contain up to 4165 elements. I need to write all those elements to text file. I'm using this:

$array1 = stringsplit($mydata1, "=")
$array2 = stringsplit($mydata2, "=")

Arrays have same numbers of elements so next part of code is this:

for $i=1 to array1 [0]
iniwrite("textfile.txt", "File", array1[$i], $array2[$i])
next

This works fine, but it's painfully slow. Is there any way I can speed this up, or there is some other way I can export all data from array to text file?

Exported text file needs to have INI file form:

[File]
Key=Value

Thanks in advance for any help.

Cheers

What takes so long in the many iterations of Open/Write/Close on the file. If you assemble it all as a string in memory and then write it once, it will be very fast:

$sIniFile = "TestFile.txt"
$sIniData = "[File]" & @CRLF
for $i=1 to $array1[0]
    $sIniData &= $array1[$i] & "=" & $array2[$i] & @CRLF
next
FileWrite($sIniFile, $sIniData)

The _FileWriteFromArray() suggestion won't work because you are assembling data from two arrays into INI format.

[DjDeep00]

The _FileWriteFromArray() suggestion won't work because you are assembling data from two arrays into INI format.

My bad...you are 100% correct...

Dyslexia

Edited August 12, 2008 by DjDeep00

[igorm]

Thank you very much PsaltyDS, much faster now.

Cheers