Thanks! Yep, had figured out that I didn't need to worry about what sCount was as long as it was lower each time. Not sure why my noggin was so insistent on doing it the other way, but.. /shrug
On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 12:10 PM, Geoff Canyon <gcan...@gmail.com> wrote: > A quick check and this works: > > local sCount > > function getCount > subtract 1 from sCount > return sCount > end getCount > > on mouseUp > sort lines of fld 1 numeric by getCount() > end mouseUp > > You don't need to have sCount start at the number of lines of the text to > be sorted. It can start at 0 and go down from there, so you save the time > of parsing the list to get the number of lines. > > Further, you don't need to initialize sCount ever, unless you plan to sort > many billions of lines. > > > On Sun, Feb 8, 2015 at 4:09 PM, Mike Bonner <bonnm...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Just curious.. How does this compare? > > > > local scount > > on mouseUp > > put the number of lines in field 1 + 1 into scount > > sort lines of field 1 by getCount() > > end mouseUp > > > > function getCount > > subtract 1 from sCount > > return sCount > > end getCount > > > > On Sun, Feb 8, 2015 at 2:52 PM, J. Landman Gay <jac...@hyperactivesw.com > > > > wrote: > > > > > Just tinkering around on a lazy Sunday, and I thought I'd come up with > a > > > neat way to reverse a list without using the traditional clunky method: > > > > > > function reverseSort pList > > > repeat for each line l in pList > > > put l & cr before tList > > > end repeat > > > return tList > > > end reverseSort > > > > > > One of the best things I learned from a past LC converence came from > > Jerry > > > Daniels who said "let the engine do it." It's almost always faster and > > more > > > efficient. With that in mind I wrote this: > > > > > > local sNum > > > > > > function reverseText pList > > > put the number of lines in pList into sNum > > > sort lines of pList numeric by reverseSort(each) > > > return pList > > > end reverseText > > > > > > function reverseSort pTxt > > > subtract 1 from sNum > > > return sNum && pTxt > > > end reverseSort > > > > > > Works great and I was proud. Then I did some timing tests and found out > > > the two methods are very close to equivalent in timing, and on long > > lists, > > > the first way is actually faster. > > > > > > So much for improving on LC's text chunking speed. Pah. > > > > > > -- > > > Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com > > > HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > 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
