Re: Reporting the number of duplicates in a list of numbers?
I'm the biggest fan there is of arrays - but for this problem an array looks like overkill - see the simple code below. (btw - not actually tested, so beware typos) put empty into tCounted put empty into tLast repeat for each line L in tData if L = tLast then add 1 to tCount else if tLast is not empty then put tLast tCount CR after tCounted put L into tLast put 1 into tCount end if end repeat put tLast tCount CR after tCounted As an aside, either this method or the other one Kay posted using arrays would work just as well using the actual word, rather then numbers representing the selected word, so if you had to do any work to convert the students' input from word to number, you could skip that step. -- Alex. On 05/05/2014 03:58, JOHN PATTEN wrote: Hi All… I am attempting to get the total number of times specific words in a text passage are selected by students. The way I’m doing this is by recording the word numbers selected by each student and storing them in a database. I end up with list of numbers representing the selected words, something like this: 3 5 6 6 24 24 24 33 130 109 … etc. etc. I would like to determine the number of times the same words are selected by the students and then control their font size, make the font size larger the more often the text is selected. So the teacher’s report would be the same passage of text with the font sizes of the text increased based on how many times the word was selected by the students. I’m not sure how to get the counts for the selected words. These list of word numbers could be quite long, depending on how many students are in the class and the length of the passage. I have not done anything like this before so I’m looking for any advice. Should I be dumping the list into an array and then working some kind of array magic? Can I just use a repeated find script and increment a variable for each item in my list? I didn’t want to spin my wheels too long, and this is probably pretty basic, but I can’t remember coding a solution to something like this in the past. Thank you! John Patten SUSD ___ 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
Re: Reporting the number of duplicates in a list of numbers?
This might get you started, in the msg box: put 3,5,6,6,24,24,24,33,130,109 into tData --if the data comes from the db as seperate lines, then --repeat for each line tRecord in tData --if data comes in from db as a list repeat for each item tRecord in tData add 1 to aCount[tRecord] end repeat --now output results repeat for each key tKey in aCount put tKey = aCount[tKey] cr after msg end repeat The output I get is: 109 = 1 3 = 1 130 = 1 5 = 1 33 = 1 24 = 3 6 = 2 HTH On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 10:58 AM, JOHN PATTEN johnpat...@me.com wrote: Hi All… I am attempting to get the total number of times specific words in a text passage are selected by students. The way I’m doing this is by recording the word numbers selected by each student and storing them in a database. I end up with list of numbers representing the selected words, something like this: 3 5 6 6 24 24 24 33 130 109 … etc. etc. I would like to determine the number of times the same words are selected by the students and then control their font size, make the font size larger the more often the text is selected. So the teacher’s report would be the same passage of text with the font sizes of the text increased based on how many times the word was selected by the students. I’m not sure how to get the counts for the selected words. These list of word numbers could be quite long, depending on how many students are in the class and the length of the passage. I have not done anything like this before so I’m looking for any advice. Should I be dumping the list into an array and then working some kind of array magic? Can I just use a repeated find script and increment a variable for each item in my list? I didn’t want to spin my wheels too long, and this is probably pretty basic, but I can’t remember coding a solution to something like this in the past. Thank you! John Patten SUSD ___ 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
Re: Reporting the number of duplicates in a list of numbers?
Thanks Kay! That’s what I needed. I knew it was pretty simple, but my unfamiliarity with arrays prevented me from seeing the solution. Cheers! John Patten SUSD On May 4, 2014, at 8:14 PM, Kay C Lan lan.kc.macm...@gmail.com wrote: This might get you started, in the msg box: put 3,5,6,6,24,24,24,33,130,109 into tData --if the data comes from the db as seperate lines, then --repeat for each line tRecord in tData --if data comes in from db as a list repeat for each item tRecord in tData add 1 to aCount[tRecord] end repeat --now output results repeat for each key tKey in aCount put tKey = aCount[tKey] cr after msg end repeat The output I get is: 109 = 1 3 = 1 130 = 1 5 = 1 33 = 1 24 = 3 6 = 2 HTH On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 10:58 AM, JOHN PATTEN johnpat...@me.com wrote: Hi All… I am attempting to get the total number of times specific words in a text passage are selected by students. The way I’m doing this is by recording the word numbers selected by each student and storing them in a database. I end up with list of numbers representing the selected words, something like this: 3 5 6 6 24 24 24 33 130 109 … etc. etc. I would like to determine the number of times the same words are selected by the students and then control their font size, make the font size larger the more often the text is selected. So the teacher’s report would be the same passage of text with the font sizes of the text increased based on how many times the word was selected by the students. I’m not sure how to get the counts for the selected words. These list of word numbers could be quite long, depending on how many students are in the class and the length of the passage. I have not done anything like this before so I’m looking for any advice. Should I be dumping the list into an array and then working some kind of array magic? Can I just use a repeated find script and increment a variable for each item in my list? I didn’t want to spin my wheels too long, and this is probably pretty basic, but I can’t remember coding a solution to something like this in the past. Thank you! John Patten SUSD ___ 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
Re: Reporting the number of duplicates in a list of numbers?
If you're using an sql db: SELECT thewordnumber, count(*) AS C FROM table GROUP BY thewordnumber ORDER BY C DESCENDING Returns the word numbers and count sorted by count high to low. Pete lcSQL Software On May 4, 2014 8:47 PM, JOHN PATTEN johnpat...@me.com wrote: Thanks Kay! That’s what I needed. I knew it was pretty simple, but my unfamiliarity with arrays prevented me from seeing the solution. Cheers! John Patten SUSD On May 4, 2014, at 8:14 PM, Kay C Lan lan.kc.macm...@gmail.com wrote: This might get you started, in the msg box: put 3,5,6,6,24,24,24,33,130,109 into tData --if the data comes from the db as seperate lines, then --repeat for each line tRecord in tData --if data comes in from db as a list repeat for each item tRecord in tData add 1 to aCount[tRecord] end repeat --now output results repeat for each key tKey in aCount put tKey = aCount[tKey] cr after msg end repeat The output I get is: 109 = 1 3 = 1 130 = 1 5 = 1 33 = 1 24 = 3 6 = 2 HTH On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 10:58 AM, JOHN PATTEN johnpat...@me.com wrote: Hi All… I am attempting to get the total number of times specific words in a text passage are selected by students. The way I’m doing this is by recording the word numbers selected by each student and storing them in a database. I end up with list of numbers representing the selected words, something like this: 3 5 6 6 24 24 24 33 130 109 … etc. etc. I would like to determine the number of times the same words are selected by the students and then control their font size, make the font size larger the more often the text is selected. So the teacher’s report would be the same passage of text with the font sizes of the text increased based on how many times the word was selected by the students. I’m not sure how to get the counts for the selected words. These list of word numbers could be quite long, depending on how many students are in the class and the length of the passage. I have not done anything like this before so I’m looking for any advice. Should I be dumping the list into an array and then working some kind of array magic? Can I just use a repeated find script and increment a variable for each item in my list? I didn’t want to spin my wheels too long, and this is probably pretty basic, but I can’t remember coding a solution to something like this in the past. Thank you! John Patten SUSD ___ 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
