Silly me... of course. Thank you, Dunbarx for pointing out the obvious :) SKIP
On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 2:27 PM dunbarx--- via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > Hi. > You are getting empty because the information returned from the function > is an array. > "combine " the array with "return and "comma" > Craig > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Skip Kimpel via use-livecode <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> > To: Dan Friedman <d...@clearvisiontech.com> > Cc: Skip Kimpel <skiplon...@gmail.com>; How to use LiveCode < > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> > Sent: 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 1:34 PM Dan Friedman <d...@clearvisiontech.com> > wrote: > > > 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 unique names, and how many > > instances of each one > > > > > > -Dan > > > > > > > > On 4/27/20, 10:25 AM, "use-livecode on behalf of Skip Kimpel via > > use-livecode" <use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com on behalf of > > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > > > 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 this it get waaaayyy too long :) > > > > Simple approach? > > > > SKIP > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 > > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > _______________________________________________ > 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 > _______________________________________________ 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
