I’d like to be able to query an array (multi and single dimensional ) with something like SQL. Is there a way to do this?
It just seems extraordinarily wasteful to step through it one record at a time.
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I’d like to be able to query an array (multi and single dimensional ) with something like SQL. Is there a way to do this?
It just seems extraordinarily wasteful to step through it one record at a time.
Nope. Do you wasteful in terms of having to write the loop, or performance wise? I’d expect heaping a layer of abstraction over the array would hinder performance.
If you need to search your arrays in something other than linear time (ie., one at a time), you’ll need to organize them so that you can so a binary search over them (or any number of other algorithms).