Of course *all* three of my suggested approaches are wrong - I messed up
the inner loop in each...
On 2020-02-20 07:56, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode wrote:
NON-UNIQUE ANCHORS
repeat with i = 1 to the number of elements in tDataA
local tRunsA
put tDataA[i]["runs"] into tRunsA
repeat with j = 1 to the number of elements in tRunsA
if tRunsA[j]["metadata"] is tSearchText then
repeat with m = 1 to j
add the number of words of tRunsA[m]["text"] to tNumWords
put true into tFlagExit
exit repeat
end repeat
end if
end repeat
if tFlagExit then
exit repeat
end if
end repeat
select word tNumWords of line i of field "x"
Should be:
repeat with i = 1 to the number of elements in tDataA
local tRunsA
put tDataA[i]["runs"] into tRunsA
repeat with j = 1 to the number of elements in tRunsA
if tRunsA[j]["metadata"] is tSearchText then
repeat with m = 1 to j
add the number of words of tRunsA[m]["text"] to tNumWords
end repeat
put true into tFlagExit
exit repeat
end if
end repeat
if tFlagExit then
exit repeat
end if
end repeat
select word tNumWords of line i of field "x"
UNIQUE ANCHORS
repeat for each key i in tDataA
local tRunsA
put tDataA[i]["runs"] into tRunsA
repeat for each key j in tRunsA
if tRunsA[j]["metadata"] is tSearchText then
repeat with m = 1 to j
add the number of words of tRunsA[m]["text"] to tNumWords
put true into tFlagExit
exit repeat
end repeat
end if
end repeat
if tFlagExit then
exit repeat
end if
end repeat
select word tNumWords of line i of field "x"
Should be:
repeat for each key i in tDataA
local tRunsA
put tDataA[i]["runs"] into tRunsA
repeat for each key j in tRunsA
if tRunsA[j]["metadata"] is tSearchText then
repeat with m = 1 to j
add the number of words of tRunsA[m]["text"] to tNumWords
end repeat
put true into tFlagExit
exit repeat
end if
end repeat
if tFlagExit then
exit repeat
end if
end repeat
select word tNumWords of line i of field "x"
RUN WITH METADATA DEFINES SELECTION - NON-UNIQUE SEARCH
repeat with i = 1 to the number of elements in tDataA
local tRunsA
put tDataA[i]["runs"] into tRunsA
repeat with j = 1 to the number of elements in tRunsA
local tRunA
put tRunsA[j] into tRunA
if tRunA["metadata"] is tSearchText then
repeat with m = 1 to j - 1
add the number of codeunits of tRunsA[m]["text"] to
tNumCodeunitsBefore
put the number of codeunits in tRunA["text"] into tNumCodeunits
put true into tFlagExit
exit repeat
end repeat
end if
end repeat
if tFlagExit then
exit repeat
end if
end repeat
select codeunit tNumCodeunitsBefore to tNumCodeunitsBefore +
tNumCodeunits - 1 of line i of field "x"
Should be:
repeat with i = 1 to the number of elements in tDataA
local tRunsA
put tDataA[i]["runs"] into tRunsA
repeat with j = 1 to the number of elements in tRunsA
local tRunA
put tRunsA[j] into tRunA
if tRunA["metadata"] is tSearchText then
repeat with m = 1 to j - 1
add the number of codeunits of tRunsA[m]["text"] to
tNumCodeunitsBefore
end repeat
put the number of codeunits in tRunA["text"] into tNumCodeunits
put true into tFlagExit
exit repeat
end if
end repeat
if tFlagExit then
exit repeat
end if
end repeat
select codeunit tNumCodeunitsBefore to tNumCodeunitsBefore +
tNumCodeunits - 1 of line i of field "x"
Oops!
Mark.
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Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/
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