Got it, thanks. The array was numbered but I didn't have enough dimensions.
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Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com
HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com
On August 11, 2023 7:03:33 PM Alex Tweedly via use-livecode
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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.
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