Ditto, and I am not sure what noticeable impact one method would have over another. There was some blurb a long time ago about how these keys are internally sorted. I believe what was proposed is that a set of NUMERIC keys beginning with 0 would actually sort correctly.
Bob S > On Sep 2, 2020, at 8:24 AM, Ralph DiMola via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > David, > > Nope you have to sort them NUMERIC. As you said this is the only way I know > of. I do this all the time. I don't know of any other way. > > put the keys of tMyArray into tKeys > sort lines of tKeys numeric > repeat for each line tKey in tKeys > > -- do what you want with tMyArray[tKey] > -- this line will put the array data in the message box (assuming there is no > other sub keys in each numeric array entry). > put tMyArray[tKey] into tMyVar > > end repeat > > Ralph DiMola > IT Director > Evergreen Information Services > rdim...@evergreeninfo.net > > -----Original Message----- > From: use-livecode [mailto:use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com] On Behalf > Of David Bovill via use-livecode > Sent: Wednesday, September 02, 2020 10:55 AM > To: How to use LiveCode > Cc: David Bovill > Subject: Looping though a numerically indexed array > > I’m pretty sure there must be a way to efficiently loop through numerically > indexed arrays > > Repeat for each key and repeat for each element does not seem to sort the > keys in numeric order,. Of course I can get the keys and sort them before > repeating - but is there a more efficient way? > _______________________________________________ > 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
