It appears I have that backwards? Bob S
> On Sep 2, 2020, at 8:28 AM, Bob Sneidar <bobsnei...@iotecdigital.com> wrote: > > 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
