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From: "Jon Prestidge (Moose)" <jon@surfed.to>
Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.freetalk.english
Subject: Re: Destruction Of Arrays....
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 21:15:40 +0100
Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE)
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Here's an other idea using run length encoding, in a way, (like Steven Osman
suggests)....

I've knocked-up a QB pogram for you (it'd probably work in VB too) that
generates a portion of C source code that you can paste into your program.
Instead of typing in all the values in your source code you just have to do
it in a text file instead that the program reads and interprets (exactly the
same format though).  I've tested this prog, but I've not tested the code it
produces (but it looks OK).  Although the work is done for you it generates
quite a lot of code... you may be able to think of some tricks to shorten
the code output.  In anycase, even as it is now, I'm sure it'll use a lot
less memory than including more than one complete definition in your source
code.

I hope it does the trick.

Jon


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