Re: finding repeated data sequences in a column

2009-05-21 Thread Rhodri James
On Thu, 21 May 2009 08:55:45 +0100, yadin wrote: this is the program...I wrote but is not working I have a list of valves, and another of pressures; If I am ask to find out which ones are the valves that are using all this set of pressures, wanted best pressures this is the program i wrote but

Re: finding repeated data sequences in a column

2009-05-21 Thread norseman
yadin wrote: On May 20, 6:53 pm, norseman wrote: bearophileh...@lycos.com wrote: yadin: How can I build up a program that tells me that this sequence 128706 128707 128708 is repeated somewhere in the column, and how can i know where? Can such patterns nest? That is, can you have

Re: finding repeated data sequences in a column

2009-05-21 Thread Peter Otten
yadin wrote: > On May 20, 6:53 pm, norseman wrote: >> bearophileh...@lycos.com wrote: >> > yadin: >> >> How can I build up a program that tells me that this sequence >> >> 128706 >> >> 128707 >> >> 128708 >> >> is repeated somewhere in the column, and how can i know where? >> >> > Can

Re: finding repeated data sequences in a column

2009-05-21 Thread yadin
On May 20, 6:53 pm, norseman wrote: > bearophileh...@lycos.com wrote: > > yadin: > >> How can I build up a program that tells me that this sequence > >> 128706 > >> 128707 > >> 128708 > >> is repeated somewhere in the column, and how can i know where? > > > Can such patterns nest? That

Re: finding repeated data sequences in a column

2009-05-20 Thread norseman
bearophileh...@lycos.com wrote: yadin: How can I build up a program that tells me that this sequence 128706 128707 128708 is repeated somewhere in the column, and how can i know where? Can such patterns nest? That is, can you have a repeated pattern made of an already seen pattern

Re: finding repeated data sequences in a column

2009-05-20 Thread bearophileHUGS
yadin: > How can I build up a program that tells me that this sequence > 128706 > 128707 > 128708 > is repeated somewhere in the column, and how can i know where? Can such patterns nest? That is, can you have a repeated pattern made of an already seen pattern plus something else? If yo

Re: finding repeated data sequences in a column

2009-05-20 Thread Tim Chase
lets say you have this column of numbers 128706 128707 128708 100 12 128706 128707 128708 128709 128706 128707 128708 100 12 6 How can I build up a program that tells me that this sequence 128706 128707 128708 is repeated somewhere in the colum

Re: finding repeated data sequences in a column

2009-05-20 Thread yadin
On May 20, 11:16 am, bearophileh...@lycos.com wrote: > yadin, understanding what you want is probably 10 times harder than > writing down the code :-) > > > I have a a table, from where I can extract a column. > > You can extract it? Or do you want to extract it? Or do you want to > process it? Etc

Re: finding repeated data sequences in a column

2009-05-20 Thread bearophileHUGS
yadin, understanding what you want is probably 10 times harder than writing down the code :-) > I have a a table, from where I can extract a column. You can extract it? Or do you want to extract it? Or do you want to process it? Etc. > I wanna go down trough that column made of numbers > examin