Greetings keithbas,

Why exactly do you not want to use references? References are your friend. If I understand complex data structures (which maybe I don't), I'd think that any array of an array is built only by references.

Alternatively, you could push all the array data into a single, flat array. Assuming that the number of columns will never change, you could then just loop through the array...

This is really icky, IMHO, but you'd have your data in an array with no references...

-gryphon
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