Ignore the extra puts in my preceding post of course. Forgot to clean up all of them after "seeing" how things were working.
On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 8:28 AM, Mike Bonner <bonnm...@gmail.com> wrote: > It seems all you'd have to do is have sort include any trailing chars up > to the next word along with word in question. > > " one two three." Spaces to the left of a word (at least as the > first word) don't seem to delimit the word following, hence grabbing word 1 > of the above string would return "one" rather than empty. sorting and > returning "one " for one in a sort (and onward) might work, but then as > in my example string, its already a pain again because what do you do with > the preceding spaces? > > It seems that if you have special case needs, it'd be easier to roll your > own. (assuming simply setting a delimiter won't work) > > Something like this works well.. > > local sDataArray > on mouseUp > put " the quick brown fox jumped" into tDat > put empty > put 0 into tCount > repeat for each word tWord in tDat > add 1 to tCount > > put tWord into sDataArray[tCount] > end repeat > put the keys of sDataArray into tKeys > sort lines of tKeys by wordFunc(each) > put tKeys > end mouseUp > > function wordFunc pSortKey > put sDataArray[pSortKey] & comma after msg > return sDataArray[pSortKey] > end wordFunc > > > You end up with an array with words keyed by their original key position, > plus a key list sorted by word. It leaves the original (strangely > formatted) text alone but you then have easy (and it seems, fast) access to > the words in sorted order. > > > > On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 6:17 AM, Mark Waddingham <m...@livecode.com> wrote: > >> On 2015-12-09 13:42, j...@souslelogo.com wrote: >> >>> Hi Mark, >>> >>> I am probably missing something, but items can be separated by multiple >>> itemdelimiters too, but nevertheless the sorting function works, as in >>> this >>> example : >>> get "12,5,,4,10,,,11,24" >>> sort items of it ascending numeric >>> >>> it returns ,,,4,5,10,11,12,24 >>> and no compilation error... >>> >> >> Right - but: >> >> "1,2,,,,3,4,5" >> >> Is a list of 8 items - 3 of them empty. >> >> "the quick brown fox jumped" >> >> Is a list of 5 words - multiple item delimiters mean something, multiple >> spaces are just a single 'delimiter' in this context. >> >> >> Warmest Regards, >> >> Mark. >> >> >> -- >> Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/ >> LiveCode: Everyone can create apps >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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
