That's exactly what I did. A day doesn't go by that I find another way to make a mistake.
Thanks for all your help. On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 3:00 PM, Robert Brenstein <[email protected]> wrote: > On 16.12.2010 at 20:36 Uhr -0400 william humphrey apparently wrote: > >> function getMissingNumbers pNumberList >> put empty into vOccurences >> repeat for each item vNumber in pNumberList >> add 1 to vOccurences[vNumber] >> end repeat >> get the keys of vOccurences >> sort lines of it numeric >> put line -1 of it into vLargestNumber >> put empty into vMissing >> repeat with i=1 to vLargestNumber >> if vOccurences[i] is empty then put i & comma after vMissing >> end repeat >> delete char -1 of vMissing >> return vMissing >> end getMissingNumbers >> >> this returns a sequential list of all numbers, not just the missing >> numbers >> > > Just tested this and it works for me. May be you passed the data as > multiple parameters instead of one. I mean sth like > > answer getMissingNumbers(3,4,5,6,6,7,8,9,10,12,13,13,14) > > instead of > > answer getMissingNumbers("3,4,5,6,6,7,8,9,10,12,13,13,14") > > This algorithm makes no assumption on the order of data except that it > should contain numbers from 1 to the largest number in the set. Their order > or repetition are irrelevant. > > > Robert > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > [email protected] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > -- http://www.bluewatermaritime.com _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
