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

Forgive the editor in me (or not).

How to manipulate groups of arrays && size of group varies between iterations && new members treated differently && some previous members retained.

Its a simplism sure, but it sure gives a strong hint to future searchers looking at a list of thread titles.

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Re^6: How to code this?
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Nov 20, 2011 at 19:35 UTC

    Too long and too generic.

    No searcher will ever search for that exactly, but it will match so many other partial searches as to be entirely useless for the purpose of selection.

    QED.

Re^6: How to code this?
by jffry (Hermit) on Nov 21, 2011 at 21:38 UTC

      I fear you miss the point.

      It's not finding the thread that is the problem. It is having it turn up for any search regarding 'groups' or 'manipulation' or 'iteration' or 'arrays' or ...

      It will now turn up on so many searches for unrelated subjects that you made searching less effective rather than more.

      It is very doubtful if anyone else will come looking to solve the same problem I had -- it is pretty unique -- but if they should, the chances are they won't know how to describe it well either and even less likely that they come up with a sufficiently similar description to you to pick that thread out.


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