Someone on this list at some point posted an array sorting function that might be relevant here for some applications. See below.
-- Peter Peter M. Brigham pmb...@gmail.com http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig "Why is the alphabet in that order? Is it because of that song?" -- Steven Wright function sortArray @pArray, sortMode -- sort the values of an array, returning a numerically-keyed array -- whose values increase as the keys increase -- call it as follows -- put sortArray(tArray) into sortedArray -- pArray is referenced to avoid duplicating large arrays in memory -- but pArray is not changed by this function -- sortMode = {"text"|"textCaseSens"|"numeric"|"dateTime"} -- textCaseSens sets caseSensitive to true before sorting by text -- if sortMode = empty, defaults to numeric -- not sure who wrote this if sortMode = empty then put "numeric" into sortMode # create a list of the array entry values put the keys of pArray into keyList repeat for each line k in keyList put pArray[k] & cr after valueList end repeat delete char -1 of valueList # sort the list as directed switch sortMode case "textCaseSens" set the casesensitive to true case "text" sort lines of valueList break case "numeric" sort lines of valueList numeric break case "dateTime" sort lines of valueList dateTime break end switch # transform the sorted list back to a numerically indexed array split valueList by return return valueList end sortArray On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 11:36 AM, Bob Sneidar <bobsnei...@iotecdigital.com> wrote: > You can get the keys of an array and sort them before accessing them. The > array itself cannot be sorted, and there would be no benefit to doing so > that I can see. > > Bob S > > > On Dec 9, 2015, at 07:56 , Mike Bonner <bonnm...@gmail.com<mailto: > bonnm...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > I was just thinking how useful sort could be to find things (in an array or > whatever) > > _______________________________________________ > 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
