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The copypartialdictionary statement builds a new dictionary and initializes it with values from an existing dictionary (see Data Dictionaries).

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Parameters

This statement has three parameters:

sourcedictionary – name of the field or variable that contains the original dictionary (must contain binary data).

targetdictionary – name of the field or variable that will contain the new dictionary.

key – is the name of the key to copy. If you need to copy more than one key/value pair, more than one key parameter can be used.

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Description

The copypartialdictionary statement takes one or more key names and copies the associated key/value pairs from the original dictionary into a new one. For example, suppose you created a dictionary and stored it in a variable named contact.

fileglobal contact,mailto
contact=initializedictionary("First","John","Last","Wilson",
    "Address","3987 Olive","City","Tustin","State","CA","Zip","92841",
    "Phone","562-309-5923","Email","jwilson@someisp.com")

Later, you could use the copypartialdictionary statement to create a second dictionary, callled mailto, that contains just the address information (without the phone number, e-mail, or any other entries that may have been added to the original dictionary):

copypartialdictionary contact,mailto,"Address","City","State","Zip"

Note: For better peformance, use the copypartialdictionary( function instead of this statement.

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See Also

• appenddictionaryvalue -- appends a value to an item in a dictionary (see Data Dictionaries).
• changedictionaryname -- changes the name (key) of an item in a dictionary (see Data Dictionaries).
• changedictionaryvalues( -- changes one or more values in a dictionary (see Data Dictionaries).
• copypartialdictionary( -- partially copies a dictionary (see Data Dictionaries).
• Data Dictionaries -- Overview of Panorama's key/value data dictionaries.
• deletedictionaryvalue -- deletes a key/value pair from a dictionary (see Data Dictionaries).
• deletedictionaryvalue( -- deletes one or more key/value pairs from a dictionary (see Data Dictionaries).
• deleteglobaldictionaryvalues -- deletes one or more global dictionary values.
• dictionarydifference -- builds an array that lists keys of dictionary values that are different between two dictionaries (see Data Dictionaries).
• dictionaryfromarray( -- builds a new dictionary and initializes it from a two dimensional text array (see Data Dictionaries and Text Arrays).
• dictionaryfromvariables( -- builds a new dictionary and initializes it from a list of variables (carriage return delimited).
• dictionaryvalueexists -- returns true or false depending on whether or not a key/value pair exists in a dictionary (see Data Dictionaries).
• dictionaryvalueexists( -- returns true or false depending on whether or not a key/value pair exists in a dictionary (see Data Dictionaries).
• dumpdictionary -- returns a carriage return separated array of dictionary keys and values (see Data Dictionaries).
• dumpdictionary( -- returns a carriage return separated array of dictionary keys and values (see Data Dictionaries).
• dumpdictionaryquoted -- returns a carriage return separated array of dictionary keys and values (see Data Dictionaries).
• dumpdictionaryquoted( -- returns a carriage return separated array of dictionary keys and values (see Data Dictionaries). The text values are quoted.
• getdictionarykey -- returns the key of an item in the dictionary, given its value. This is essentially the opposite of the getdictionaryvalue( function (see Data Dictionaries).
• getdictionarykey( -- returns the key of an item in the dictionary, given its value). This is essentially the opposite of the getdictionaryvalue( function (see Data Dictionaries).
• getdictionaryvalue -- returns the value of an item in the dictionary, given its key (see Data Dictionaries).
• getdictionaryvalue( -- returns the value of an item in the dictionary, given its key (see Data Dictionaries).
• getglobaldictionary( -- converts a global dictionary into a regular dictionary.
• Global Dictionaries -- alertnate high performance method to store multiple data items, much faster than regular data dictionaries.
• globaldictionarykeys( -- lists the keys in a global dictionary, or the names of all global dictionaries.
• globaldictionaryvalue( -- returns the value of an item in a global dictionary, given its key (see Global Dictionaries).
• info("timerinfo") -- returns a dictionary that contains all of the properties of the currently running timer.
• initializedictionary -- builds a new dictionary and initializes it with one or more key/value entries (see Data Dictionaries).
• initializedictionary( -- builds a new dictionary and initializes it with one or more key/value entries (see Data Dictionaries).
• initializedictionaryvalue( -- builds a new dictionary and initializes it with one or more entries (see Data Dictionaries). This function is deprecated, we recommend using the initializedictionary( function instead.
• listdictionarykeys( -- returns a list of the keys in a dictionary collection.
• listdictionarynames -- returns a list of the names (keys) in a dictionary (see Data Dictionaries).
• mergedictionaries -- merges the contents of two or more dictionaries (see Data Dictionaries).
• mergedictionaries( -- merges the contents of two or more dictionaries (see Data Dictionaries).
• renamedictionarykey( -- changes the key (name) of one or more values in a dictionary (see Data Dictionaries).
• setdictionaryvalue -- changes a value in a dictionary (see Data Dictionaries).
• setglobaldictionaryvalues -- sets one or more key/value pairs in a global dictionary.
• setlocalsfromdictionary -- converts a dictionary into a collection of local variables. The names and values of the local variables will be derived from the dictionary contents.
• timerinfo( -- returns a dictionary that contains all of the properties of a timer.

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History

Version	Status	Notes
10.0	Updated	Carried over from Panorama 6.0, but uses new internal dictionary format