automate tuple creation

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On Friday, 21 January 2022 at 18:50:46 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer 
wrote:
>
> Yeah, iota is a random-access range, so you can just pass it 
> directly, and not allocate anything.
>
> Looking at the usage, it doesn't need to be an array at all. 
> But modifying the code to properly accept the range might prove 
> difficult for someone not used to it.
>
> -Steve

thanks. that makes more sense actually ;-)

now i can get rid of the idArray completely, and just do:

foreach(i, id; enumerate(iota(iotaStartNum, iotaStartNum + 
recordsNeeded)))
{
     records ~= [ id: valuesArray[i] ];
}