The new VSTACK and HSTACK dynamic array functions perform a kind of act of rescue for the user; they enormously simplify a time-worn data-management task that much of the time could in fact be largely avoided to begin with.
That task is the business of merging or consolidating data that’s been gathered into multiple datasets. A standard example: a freelancer records his income in a series of datasets, each one archiving one year’s worth of activity. In this stereotypical but utterly plausible scenario, our gig economist ...