Re: Probably a pointless question about using sort to search..

Just to be clear, it's not my function, it came from someone else on the list. It could easily be revised to handle the case of cr's within data chunks, though. -- Peter Peter M. Brigham pmb...@gmail.com http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig On Dec 11, 2015, at 6:51 PM, Alex Tweedly wrote: > > I

Re: Probably a pointless question about using sort to search..

On Sat, Dec 12, 2015 at 7:40 AM, Peter M. Brigham wrote: > Just to be clear, it's not my function ​I got that.​ ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage

Re: Probably a pointless question about using sort to search..

I'll take another swing at the horse. My objection to this handler/function at this point is that it's replacing (at most) six lines of code: put the itemDel into savedDelimiter set the itemDel to someDelimiter combine someArray with someDelimiter sort items of someArray split someArray with

Re: Probably a pointless question about using sort to search..

At this point probably beating a dead horse, but here's a cleaned up handler that handles cr's in the data. Geoff is right that the basic idea can be done in 3 lines, but this automates choosing an alternate delimiter and specifying the sort mode in a one-line call. The original handler came

Re: Probably a pointless question about using sort to search..

I haven't read everything in this thread, so I don't know if Peter's function handled this or not ... On 11/12/2015 23:32, Geoff Canyon wrote: On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 12:47 PM, Peter Brigham wrote: Someone on this list at some point posted an array sorting function that

Re: Probably a pointless question about using sort to search..

On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 12:47 PM, Peter Brigham wrote: > Someone on this list at some point posted an array sorting function that > might be relevant here for some applications. See below. > ​Why would anyone make a separate handler ​for this, and even more so, why make it a

Re: Probably a pointless question about using sort to search..

On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 6:51 PM, Alex Tweedly wrote: > > I haven't read everything in this thread, so I don't know if Peter's > function handled this or not ... > > On 11/12/2015 23:32, Geoff Canyon wrote: > >> On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 12:47 PM, Peter Brigham

Re: Probably a pointless question about using sort to search..

If the keys are numerical, you can just drop it into a datagrid and sort on the column you want. Bob S On Dec 10, 2015, at 09:47 , Peter Brigham > wrote: Someone on this list at some point posted an array sorting function that might be relevant here

Re: Probably a pointless question about using sort to search..

Someone on this list at some point posted an array sorting function that might be relevant here for some applications. See below. -- Peter Peter M. Brigham pmb...@gmail.com http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig "Why is the alphabet in that order? Is it because of that song?" -- Steven

Re: Probably a pointless question about using sort to search..

You can get the keys of an array and sort them before accessing them. The array itself cannot be sorted, and there would be no benefit to doing so that I can see. Bob S On Dec 9, 2015, at 07:56 , Mike Bonner > wrote: I was just thinking how

Probably a pointless question about using sort to search..

I was just thinking how useful sort could be to find things (in an array or whatever) I took the example from the other (word sort) thread and did this.. (obviously it would make more sense to NOT be building the array on the fly and use it on an existing one.) local sDataArray on mouseUp put