Handling array in Vex

[BenWall]

Hi,

In Python, we can create a "quick array" with conditions in a single line:

 

a1 = [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9]
a2 = [0, 2, 4, 6, 8]
a3 = [i for i in a1 if i not in a2]


>>>> a3 == [1, 3, 5, 7, 9]

 

In vex, I know how to do it the long way:

 

int a1[] = [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9];
int a2[] = [0, 2, 4, 6, 8];
int a3;
foreach( int i; a1 ){
	if( find(a2, i) >= 0 ){
    		append(a3, i);
    }
}


>>>> a3 == [1, 3, 5, 7, 9]

 

Is there a faster way to do this kind of things, maybe like in Python?

 

Thanks!

Edited September 9, 2019 by BenWall

[Neon Junkyard]

List comprehension?  Not really... Foreach is in itself shorthand,  for( int i = 0; i< len(a1); i++). 

You could create a custom VEX function library for stuff like this, close as you will get to python classes

[BenWall]

Too bad!

Anyway, I recently learned recently we can do this, which is easier to read to me:

if( find(a2, i) >= 0 ){
append(a3, i);
}



if( find(a2, i) >= 0 ) append(a3, i);

Thanks for your answer.

Edited September 13, 2019 by BenWall