function getUniqueNames inData,pColumn
split inData by column
split inData[pColumn] by return and return
combine inData[pColumn] by return and space
return inData[pColumn]
end getUniqueNames
Jim Lambert
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From: use-livecode [mailto:use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of
Skip Kimpel via use-livecode
Sent: Monday, April 27, 2020 3:29 PM
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Subject: Re: Counting unique items in a file
All of that wo
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>> From: Skip Kimpel via use-livecode
>> To: Dan Friedman
>> Cc: Skip Kimpel ; How to use LiveCode <
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>> Thanks Dan
gt; "combine " the array with "return and "comma"
> Craig
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>
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> To: Dan Friedman
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Mon, Apr 27, 2020 1:52 pm
Subject: Re: Counting unique items in a file
Thanks Dan!
Upon very quick implementation, I am getting empty results back. I think I
need to play around with this a little bit more but I feel you got me on
the right track.
Thanks again,
SKIP
On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 1:
Thanks Dan!
Upon very quick implementation, I am getting empty results back. I think I
need to play around with this a little bit more but I feel you got me on
the right track.
Thanks again,
SKIP
On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 1:34 PM Dan Friedman
wrote:
> Skip,
>
> Haven't tested, but pope about t
Skip,
Haven't tested, but pope about this...
function getUniqueNames inData,pColumn
put "" into uNames
set the itemDel to tab
repeat for each line l in inData
add 1 to uNames[item pColumn of l]
end repeat
return uNames
end getUniqueNames
You should get back an array keyed by the
Good afternoon LC'ers,
I am loading a tab delimited file into a variable and I need to pull out
all unique names from a certain column (let's say column 10) and count how
many times that name appears in that column.
I know there has to be an easy way of doing it. Every time I try to start
coding
