Wha?? There is a newer form of split and combine?? Bob
On Mar 11, 2011, at 4:42 PM, Alex Tweedly wrote: > >> FlexibleLearning wrote: >> >>> This is BAD... >>> repeat for each line L in tData >>> add 1 to n >>> put (item 1 of L/div1) into item 1 of line n of stdout >>> put (item 2 of L/div2) into item 2 of line n of stdout >>> end repeat >>> > The use of "put ... after ..." is so efficient this may be an interesting but > insignificant aside. > > But ... it occurs to me there is another approach to this problem. > > Use "split by column" to separate the two columns > Then use "split by row" to convert the columns into arrays > Then use "divide <array> by <value>" to do the maths > Then combine them back again. > > It's not (quite) as efficient for my simple test data as the other way, but I > think it's an interesting way to use the newer form of the split command. > >> on newway @t, pCol1Divisor, pCol2Divisor >> set the columnDelimiter to "," >> set the rowDelimiter to CR >> split t by column >> split t[1] by row >> divide t[1] by pCol1Divisor >> combine t[1] by row >> split t[2] by row >> divide t[2] by pCol2Divisor >> combine t[2] by row >> combine t by column >> end newway > > -- Alex. > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 _______________________________________________ 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
