Ah.
I had thought "filter" deleted the specified characters in a string, not that it loses lines containing those characters directly. I think I knew that once. Live and re-learn. Craig From: Jim Lambert <j...@netrin.com> To: use-livecode <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> Sent: Fri, Feb 1, 2013 6:10 pm Subject: Re: to find the first numeric line? Craig wrote: > But there is a problem in that much, if not all of his data is both alpha and numeric, like "A2" > So filtering will not eliminate those lines that contain strings in that form. > Works on this: 1a 1b a1 a2b4 3t c7 5u h2 5k Give it a shot. JimL > Mark wrote: > >> have you taken a look at the FILTER command? >> filter list with "[1-9]*" > > That is a possible approach, like this: > > function getNumericLineStart temp > put the number of lines of temp into totalLines > sort numeric temp > filter temp with "[1-9]*" > put the number of lines of temp into totalLinesNumericStart > return totalLines-totalLinesNumericStart > end getNumericLineStart > > Not sure if this is any speedier than a repeat loop. > > Jim Lambert _______________________________________________ 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
