Extract value pairs from text arrays with LotusScript

However, because the status history was only available in a text array, there was a problem. The Lotus Notes documents could spend an undetermined amount of time in any status more than one time. The variety and number of status stages precluded the use of multiple-type double variables. The status stages also held time values.

This addition of new status stages meant that I would also need to rewrite the LotusScript code. Because most documents used just five or six of the 16+ available statuses, that would waste too much time and the code would be extremely complicated.

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The solution was to extract the data into a li...

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st using the status as the list tag:

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This method did everything the client wanted -- quickly and accurately. Additionally, because I only used 22 lines of code, it's easy to understand and debug.

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