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Syed Abbas
4,762 PointsArrays in soccer game results
Hi I am confused about how arrays are used in this video. Because the soccer result sheet has rows and columns, I cant figure out how it can be arranged in one dimensional arrays. When the values are stored in the array 'values' then it should be a very long array of about about 1790 values. How can a property be set by just referring to , for example, values[1]. I am very confused.? I hope I make sense. Thank you.
2 Answers
andren
28,558 PointsThe values array does not contain all of the rows and columns, it only contains one row of info at a time.
The values array is defined within a loop, this loop runs once for each line in the soccerGameResults.csv file. Within this loop line contains all of the text from the row the loop is currently on. The split command is used to turn that row into an array that contains all of the individual columns. So if you had a row like this:
8/26/2015 05:30 PM,Chicago Fire,Home,3,16,5,11,48.68
Then values[0] would equal "8/26/2015 05:30 PM", values[1] would equal "Chicago Fire" and so on.
When the loop moves on to the next line/row the values array is redefined with the split values of that row.
Syed Abbas
4,762 PointsThank you for you reply. It makes sense now.