I think it's more important that you defined the structure you want to traverse versus design the traversal for a given structure. Most people don't realize this, but the data structure you design will make or break your sanity. It's not as easy as saying "Can you traverse this or not?"

If I was going to design a data structure to traverse, I would do things completely differently. However, I suspect that traversal isn't the only thing you're planning on doing.

In addition, you still haven't fully laid out the rules for the traversal. Here are the rules I've seen you lay out. You tell me if they make sense:

  1. Take a key from the table you're in and append it to the list.
  2. If there are no children, go to 1.
  3. Grab the list of child records.
  4. Append each child record to the list.
  5. For each child record, go to 1.
Am I missing anything?

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In reply to Re: Re: Re: So you think you're good with structures? by dragonchild
in thread So you think you're good with structures? by clintp

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