Re: associative array

[Francesco Potortì]

>> Are there more efficient ways to build and update an associative array?

> cheating and looking at matlab documentation, they point to Map containers
>objects as being specifically built for key-value pair mapping, and it
>appears Octave has a compatible implementation.  see:
>https://octave.org/doc/v5.2.0/containers_002eMap.html

Yes, I had seen that by looking for "hash" in the documentation, whose
index contain an "hash table" entry.  The manual does not explain how to
use it, so I have neglected it.

Thank you.  If the slowness turns out ot be unbearable I will consider it.

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