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> On Aug 11, 2023, at 17:02, Alex Tweedly via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > >> On 11/08/2023 23:00, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode wrote: >> On 8/10/23 2:29 PM, Alex Tweedly via use-livecode wrote: >> [ ... code from earlier posting ...] > >> I couldn't get this to work until I altered it, but I was using a very >> simple array. What type of array data did you use? I think I'm missing >> something. >> >> I just did this: >> >> put the weekdayNames into tDataA >> split tDataA by cr >> simpleSortNumberedArray tDataA, "descending,text" >> > What you're missing is that this (simpleSortNumberedArray) is only intended > for "numbered array"s (which LC is calling "sequences" in some places); i.e. > an array where the (top-level) keys are all consecutive integers, from 1 .... > n > > Also, the pSortkeys should be a number of comma-separated items, each of > which consists of a key by which you want to sort the array followed > optionally by an order and type. > > So you might do something like : > >> on mouseup >> local tCounter, tDataA >> >> repeat for each line L in the weekdayNames >> add 1 to tCounter >> put L into tDataA[tCounter]["dayname"] >> put the number of chars in L into tDataA[tCounter]["charcount"] >> end repeat >> >> -- sorts ascending by name (i.e. F, M, Sa, Su, Th, Tu, W) >> simpleSortNumberedArray tDataA, "dayname" >> repeat with I = 1 to 7 >> put tDataA[I]["charcount"] && tDataA[I]["dayname"] & CR after msg >> end repeat >> >> put "---------" &CR after msg >> >> -- sorts descending numeric by number of characters in name >> -- NB within each char count value, they remain in alphabetical order of >> name >> simpleSortNumberedArray tDataA, "charcount numeric descending" >> repeat with I = 1 to 7 >> put tDataA[I]["charcount"] && tDataA[I]["dayname"] & CR after msg >> end repeat >> end mouseup > and get as output > >> 6 Friday >> 6 Monday >> 8 Saturday >> 6 Sunday >> 8 Thursday >> 7 Tuesday >> 9 Wednesday >> --------- >> 9 Wednesday >> 8 Saturday >> 8 Thursday >> 7 Tuesday >> 6 Friday >> 6 Monday >> 6 Sunday > > So - it would be worth adding a check that the array passed in is indeed a > sequence, at the start of simpleSortNumberedArray: > > if NOT (pArrayDataA is an array AND \ > item 2 of extents(pArrayDataA) is the number of elements in > pArrayDataA) then \ > return pArrayData > > I'm now going to add this to my personal library, but I'll rename it to > > seqSortMultipleKeys > > Alex. > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
