Forgive me for my arrogance -- or not -- but I know how to "Manipulate groups of arrays in sequence".

What I was stuck on was How to code this particular set of requirements for

Manipulating groups of arrays in sequence, where the size of the group is variable from iteration to iteration, and new additions to the group have to be treated differently during this iteration, to pre-existing member of the group retained from the previous iteration.

Which I judged to be too long to be used as a node title in full, and even more vague than my chosen title if used without the italicised part.

I felt, and indeed still feel, that your suggestion, along with every other generic description of the problem was likely to encourage even more generic 'instant answers' and title-only based, wordy, prophetic truisms than it actually got, without ever serving the idealogical goal of the searchability of a "Good Title".

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In reply to Re^4: How to code this? by BrowserUk
in thread How to code this? by BrowserUk

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