hi,

Josh English <Jos### [at] joshuarenglishcom> wrote:
> I have a dictionary in 3.8 and one of the elements is an array.
> ...
> And I'm getting an error:
> Parse Error: Can't nest directives accessing the same file.
> Is there a way around this? I don't want to have to manually write each
> element out.
> I think it requires another macro to convert the .edges element to a
> string that I can then slap into the #write directive. Is this the only
> way or am I missing something?

I've been looking at (un)serialising dictionaries using my 'Filed()' macro[*],
and have not yet found a "good way" for dealing with arrays, especially
multi-dimensional.  I think converting the array to a string, and storing that,
will work, eg "3.1415:1.23:0.1" for an array of three floats; have a look at my
'strSplit()' macro[**] for the unserialising.

[*] <wiki.povray.org/content/User:Jr>
[**] <news.povray.org/web.64b08576d08f3556b49d80446cde94f1%40news.povray.org>


regards, jr.

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