Andy and Martin -

with apologies, I didn't express my problem very well! Martin, you're correct with your example

`map { 'key': array { 1 to 5 } }`

and that was part of my struggle; i.e. "It works this way but not that way - what am I doing wrong?" Andy noticed the source of my dilemma: I a using map:merge#2, with `map { "duplicates": "combine" }` -- Andy, thank you for catching that. I was entirely too caught up in a different part of the documentation.

I'm creating these maps from loose text, where keys are word pairs and values are value* (0, 1, or many). I'll come back with a better example of my problem, although I think you've both given me food for thought.
Thank you both so much for your help!

Best,

Bridger

On Wed, Aug 3, 2022 at 6:04 AM Andy Bunce <bunce.andy@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Bridger,

> is even possible; e.g. map{ "key": [1,2,3,4,5] }
Well that works fine for me, so yes.

For your other examples, I think the answer is that map:merge with map{"duplicates":"combine"} always generates value sequences on duplicate keys.
So, maybe, generate the array you want, then put it in the map

let $a:=(1 to 5)!array{.}=>array:join()
return map:entry("key",$a)

/Andy

On Wed, 3 Aug 2022 at 09:37, Martin Honnen <martin.honnen@gmx.de> wrote:

Am 03.08.2022 um 04:27 schrieb Bridger Dyson-Smith:
>
>
> I would appreciate some help understanding how I might go about having
> a multi-valued array as the value of a map key, or if this is even
> possible; e.g.
>
> map{ "key": [1,2,3,4,5] }

map { 'key' : array { 1 to 5 } }

Or have I missed the point?