you could try to
1) sort the list from low to high
2) count the list (so you have the total number of items in the list)
3) the trick
x = getPos(mysortedlist,mysortedlist[nrofitemsinthelist]) -- this will
give you the FIRST occurence of the last item in the list
y = mysortedlist[x-1]) --gives the value of the second last item in the
list
x = getPos(mysortedlist,mysortedlist[y]) -- this will give you the
FIRST occurence of the SECOND last item in the list
do this inside a repeat loop and store the x and y's as a property list
and there you go
repeat
if(x = 1) then exit repeat
end repeat
WARNING: of course this is completely untested pseudocode out of the
top of my head and should be treated this way (luckely you can't see my
head)
HTH
Bart
On 30 Jun 2005, at 20:09, Rods wrote:
Hi,
How is the best way to count the occurrences of values in a list? I
have a
list with 6000+ random generated numbers and I need to count how many
times
each of one appear.
Thank's in advance
Rodrigo Peres
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