Re: Help with Arrays

[Phil Davis]

Hi Bill,

Here is a clunky and simplistic way that works:
on mouseUp
    -- get the number of occurrences for each name
    put myList() into tList
    repeat for each line tLine in tList
        add 1 to tCountsByName[tLine]
    end repeat

    -- reformat the 'counts' data
    combine tCountsByName with CR and "="
    sort lines of tCountsByName word 1 to -2 of each -- the minor sort
    sort lines of tCountsByName numeric descending by last word of each 
-- the major sort
    replace "=" " (" in tCountsByName
    replace CR with ")" & CR in tCountsByName
    put ")" after tCountsByName

    -- you're done!
    answer tCountsByName
end mouseUp


function myList
    get "Bill,Mary,Bill,John,Jim,Jane,Bill,Jim,Jane"
    replace comma with CR in it
    return it
end myList


HTH -
Phil Davis


On 10/14/13 1:52 PM, Bill Vlahos wrote:
I have a list of names many of which repeat and I want to get a count of how 
many times each name appears in the list and sort it.

This seems like a perfect example of using an array but I'm struggling to 
figure it out.

Sample list:
        Bill
        Mary
        Bill
        John
        Jim
        Jane
        Bill
        Jim
        Jane

The popularity result should look like this:
        Bill (3)
        Jane (2)
        Jim (2)
        John (1)
        Mary (1)

How would I do this using an array?

Thanks,
Bill Vlahos
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