I was just thinking how useful sort could be to find things (in an array or
whatever)
I took the example from the other (word sort) thread and did this..
(obviously it would make more sense to NOT be building the array on the fly
and use it on an existing one.)
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
set the foundit of me to 0
sort lines of tKeys by wordFunc(each, "u")
if the foundit of me is not 0 then
put line 1 to (the foundit of me) of tKeys
end if
end mouseUp
function wordFunc pSortKey, pSearch
if sDataArray[pSortKey] contains pSearch then
set the foundit of me to the foundit of me + 1
return 1
else
return 2
end if
end wordFunc
The end result is a sorted list of keys, where all of the found items are
at the beginning of the keylist, and a property telling you how many of
those lines were the ones found.
While its interesting, i'm wondering if there might be applications where
this might actually be useful vs a simple repeat for each loop to pull out
the information directly.
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