I spoke too soon. When I tested, I hard-coded a value as the filter
string. But when I use a variable, it fails as it did before. The
elements of the array all start with a 4-character string followed by an
underscore, for example: ER01_some text here
My variable contains "ER01":
put tVar & "_*" into tFilter
filter elements of sArray with tFilter into tNewArray
No go. I've tried a few different iterations. However, this works:
filter elements of sArray with "ER01_*" into tNewArray
Even with no matches though, Tom was right. Looping through the keys
takes 0.03 milliseconds. Filtering takes 0.22 ms.
On 6/21/19 1:38 AM, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode wrote:
Thanks to all for the replies. Monte, I didn't see your post until Tom
quoted it, for some reason it didn't arrive here.
At any rate, I'd already tried "filter elements of..." and it failed
which is why I posted. But I must have had my filter wrong because I
just tried it again and it worked. So that part's solved.
And I found something interesting: when I filter a numeric array, the
keys remain attached and since they are numeric, they're in order. Fancy
that. :)
All is well. Thanks guys.
On 6/20/19 11:10 PM, Tom Glod via use-livecode wrote:
A great question Jacque ....Helpful thread all around.
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