Hi Mike, > Am 19.08.2017 um 14:36 schrieb Mike Bonner via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>: > > Have a separate list, or a special key that holds your list of keys. > > put empty into tArray > repeat for each line tLine in tData > put item 2 of tLine into tKey > if tKey = EMPTY then next repeat > put tLine & CR after tArray[tKey] > put tKey & cr after tarray['myKeyList'] > end repeat > > Then when you need to pull things back out, grab myKeyList and iterated > through it. (delete the trailing cr after the repeat ends of course)
thank you, will try this! > On Sat, Aug 19, 2017 at 6:28 AM, Klaus major-k via use-livecode < > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > >> Hi Jonathan, >> >>> Am 19.08.2017 um 14:22 schrieb Jonathan Lynch via use-livecode < >> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>: >>> >>> You could alter the name of the elements... >>> >>> Put "X_" & tK into tArrayElement >>> Put tData into myArray[tArrayElement] >>> X would be created in a counting loop. >>> >>> That way, when you get the keys of the array, you can sort numeric by >> item 1 of each, using "_" as the itemdel. This will give you the original >> order with just 1 array dimension, and you can easily retrieve the value of >> tK. >> >> not possible, I am doing something like this: >> ... >> put empty into tArray >> repeat for each line tLine in tData >> put item 2 of tLine into tKey >> if tKey = EMPTY then next repeat >> put tLine & CR after tArray[tKey] >> end repeat >> ... >> And item 2 are these said number, so I cannot control/name the key this >> way. Best Klaus -- Klaus Major http://www.major-k.de kl...@major-k.de _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode