Re: Array shift equivalent?

On Dec 7, 2006, at 0:26 , Tom Lane wrote:

> Michael Glaesemann <grzm(at)seespotcode(dot)net> writes:
>> I'm trying to shift the first element off of an array, but I'm just
>> not getting it. I'm not necessarily interested in saving the rest of
>> the array. i just want to get the first element, which in this case
>> is another array.
>
> No, it isn't. What you've got is a 2-D array. I don't think there
> is an operation that will produce a 1-D subset --- the array slice
> subscript operation produces something that's smaller but still has
> the same number of dimensions.

Thanks for the explanation and confirmation. I end up iterating over
the elements of the subarray, so I worked around it by iterating over
this_array[1][i].

Michael Glaesemann
grzm seespotcode net