Re: repeat with i=

On 7/15/11 6:02 PM, Roger Eller wrote: On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 6:56 PM, Pete wrote: Sounds like the best solution. Thanks for posting the question - I learned about "delete", "any", and more about "sort"! Pete Molly's Revenge These little challenges are great f

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On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 6:56 PM, Pete wrote: > Sounds like the best solution. Thanks for posting the question - I learned > about "delete", "any", and more about "sort"! > Pete > Molly's Revenge > These little challenges are great for the LC community. I learn som

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othymiller.com> wrote: > Thanks for all the suggestions. > > I think I'll go with: > > on mouseUp > local theNums > put "1,2,3,4,5,6" into theNums > sort items of theNums numeric by random(100) > repeat with i = 1 to 6 >do "whatever"

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Thanks for all the suggestions. I think I'll go with: on mouseUp local theNums put "1,2,3,4,5,6" into theNums sort items of theNums numeric by random(100) repeat with i = 1 to 6 do "whatever" & item i of theNums end repeat end mouseUp T

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> -- > > Message: 7 > Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2011 10:06:01 -0500 > From: Ronald Zellner > To: use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Subject: Re: repeat with i= > Message-ID: > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > Jim's seems

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Works in the message box. On Jul 14, 2011, at 4:11 PM, Pete wrote: > No problem. I'd definitely try it though - I've been bitten before by the > docs saying things that weren't quite true! > Pete > Molly's Revenge > > > > > On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 3:58 PM, Jerr

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No problem. I'd definitely try it though - I've been bitten before by the docs saying things that weren't quite true! Pete Molly's Revenge On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 3:58 PM, Jerry J wrote: > Aha! The docs say so! Learned something new today. > > Thanks Pete, > Je

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Aha! The docs say so! Learned something new today. Thanks Pete, Jerry On Jul 14, 2011, at 3:51 PM, Pete wrote: > Doesn't setting the wholematches to true deal with this? > Pete > Molly's Revenge > > > > > On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 3:35 PM, Jerry J wrote: > >> O

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Doesn't setting the wholematches to true deal with this? Pete Molly's Revenge On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 3:35 PM, Jerry J wrote: > On Jul 14, 2011, at 2:12 AM, Keith Clarke wrote: > > > ...ah yes, of course, thanks Jim - I forgot that 'delete item y' is not > the s

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On Jul 14, 2011, at 2:12 AM, Keith Clarke wrote: > ...ah yes, of course, thanks Jim - I forgot that 'delete item y' is not the > same as 'delete item *called* y' ! > > So, would itemoffset help...? > > put "1,2,3,4,5,6" into theNumbers > repeat until theNumbers is empty > put any item the

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I haven't been following this thread so my apologies if I'm missing the point, but a while back I had to deal with the task of selecting m random people for a voter pole from a list N registered voters, where N was over 100,000. Check out "Random pick" in Rev Online. I found using an array 3 tim

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On 7/14/11 10:06 AM, Ronald Zellner wrote: Jim's seems to be the most efficient and accurate, I agree. Sorting the list before the loop and then peeling off the items one by one is the most efficient way to do it. I mentioned "any" because it's such a nice addition to the language, but I didn

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Hi Ron, Am 14.07.2011 um 17:06 schrieb Ronald Zellner: > Jim's seems to be the most efficient and accurate, > but I needed this change to make it work. ' of ' changed to 'in' > > I like to add something to create quick feedback- like the field "chosen". > Easier to see the result. > Then switch

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Ronald, Sorry, don't use my first attempt - it had an error. You'd need the updated version that used itemoffset to delete the the specific number in the list, rather than it's position. To see what was used in each loop in real time, you can either put y or answer y To see the choices made retr

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Jim's seems to be the most efficient and accurate, but I needed this change to make it work. ' of ' changed to 'in' I like to add something to create quick feedback- like the field "chosen". Easier to see the result. Then switch to the complete function when the code is working. on mouseUp lo

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On Jul 14, 2011, at 2:12 AM, Keith Clarke wrote: ...ah yes, of course, thanks Jim - I forgot that 'delete item y' is not the same as 'delete item *called* y' ! So, would itemoffset help...? put "1,2,3,4,5,6" into theNumbers repeat until theNumbers is empty put any item theNumbers in

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Tha's interesting. I think you have to use delete.. of instead delete from . To me this is correct. put "1,2,3,4,5,6" into theNumbers repeat until theNumbers is empty put any item theNumbers into n put n after theNumberList delete item (itemOffset(n, theNumbers)) of t

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...ah yes, of course, thanks Jim - I forgot that 'delete item y' is not the same as 'delete item *called* y' ! So, would itemoffset help...? put "1,2,3,4,5,6" into theNumbers repeat until theNumbers is empty put any item theNumbers into n do something delete (itemOffset(n

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On Jul 14, 2011, at 12:05 AM, Keith Clarke wrote: ...so for a random selection, enforcing the use of all 6 items, would this work? put "1,2,3,4,5,6" into x repeat until x is empty put any item of x into y do something delete item y from x end repeat No, since the

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...so for a random selection, enforcing the use of all 6 items, would this work? put "1,2,3,4,5,6" into x repeat until x is empty put any item of x into y do something delete item y from x end repeat Best, Keith.. On 14 Jul 2011, at 05:58, J. Landman Gay wrote: > On 7/1

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Cool, I didn't know about "any". Thanks, Jacque! Scott Morrow On Jul 13, 2011, at 9:58 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > On 7/13/11 11:33 PM, Pete wrote: >> You're right, should probably be something like "replace y& comma with >> empty in x". > > Plain old "delete" does it. > > Also, not everyon

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Great, learned two things form this - delete and any! Pete Molly's Revenge On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 9:58 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > On 7/13/11 11:33 PM, Pete wrote: > >> You're right, should probably be something like "replace y& comma with >> empty in x". >> >

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On 7/13/11 11:33 PM, Pete wrote: You're right, should probably be something like "replace y& comma with empty in x". Plain old "delete" does it. Also, not everyone knows about the "any" keyword but it's really handy for lines like this: put item random(the number of items in x) of x into

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;d change the > "put empty" line to "delete item y of x". I think the put empty would just > put "" into that item, but the item would still be there, like: 1,2,,4,5,6 > > ~ Chris Innanen > ~ Nonsanity > > > On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 9:25 P

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On Jul 13, 2011, at 7:53 PM, Nonsanity wrote: > I like Pete's best - closest to what I was thinking - I like Jerry's best - it's better than I was thinking ... Jerry's is less code executed less often: one statement once versus two statements for each item. -- Dick _

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On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 9:25 PM, Pete wrote: > Maybe (untested): > > put "1,2,3,4,5,6" into x > repeat with i=1 to 6 > put item random(the number of items in x) into y > > put empty into item y of x > end repeat > > Pete > Molly's Revenge

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This one guarantees that each of the 6 random numbers is only used once. put "1,2,3,4,5,6" into x replace comma with cr in x repeat until (the number of lines of t) = 6 -- be cautious with until loops put random(6) into tLine if tLine is not among the lines of t then put (line

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On Jul 13, 2011, at 6:01 PM, Timothy Miller wrote: > Hi, > > Let's say that I want to do something like > > repeat with i = 1 to 6 > do "whatever" & i > end repeat > > Except, I want 1 to 6 to be in random sequence > > I could think of a

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Maybe (untested): put "1,2,3,4,5,6" into x repeat with i=1 to 6 put item random(the number of items in x) into y put empty into item y of x end repeat Pete Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com> On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 6:01 PM, Timothy Miller < gand...

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On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 9:01 PM, Timothy Miller wrote: > Hi, > > Let's say that I want to do something like > > repeat with i = 1 to 6 > do "whatever" & i > end repeat > > Except, I want 1 to 6 to be in random sequence > > I could think of a

repeat with i=

Hi, Let's say that I want to do something like repeat with i = 1 to 6 do "whatever" & i end repeat Except, I want 1 to 6 to be in random sequence I could think of a few kludgy ways to do this. Is there a standard approach? A simple approach? Than