Array question - more than one data field

[bgode]

Array question:
I've been using TCL, but this is the first time I've had a real use for arrays. I have rad the posts about multiple indexes, but what's the best,cleanest way to load and use an array with a single index and multiple data fields for each index? For example, I have data with employee number as key, and I want to load address, city, state, and zip as separate elements for each employee into an array. The data will be in simple text files that I have not built yet, so if there's some way I can set up the data to make coding simpler, I can do that too.

 

[Bong]

If I understand what you're trying to do, I think you might want an array of lists. That is, each element of the array would be a list whose elements, in turn, are address, city, state, and zip:
set a(i) {$address $city $state $zip}

If you build your list as a list of lists:
set datalist {$empNo1 {$address1 $city1 $state1 $zip1} $empNo2 {$address2 $city2 $state2 $zip2} ...},
then you can use:
array set a $datalist to build your array.

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