Thanks Kay! That’s what I needed. I knew it was pretty simple, but my unfamiliarity with arrays prevented me from seeing the solution.
Cheers! John Patten SUSD On May 4, 2014, at 8:14 PM, Kay C Lan <lan.kc.macm...@gmail.com> wrote: > This might get you started, in the msg box: > > put "3,5,6,6,24,24,24,33,130,109" into tData > --if the data comes from the db as seperate lines, then > --repeat for each line tRecord in tData > --if data comes in from db as a list > repeat for each item tRecord in tData > add 1 to aCount[tRecord] > end repeat > --now output results > repeat for each key tKey in aCount > put tKey & " = " & aCount[tKey] & cr after msg > end repeat > > The output I get is: > > 109 = 1 > 3 = 1 > 130 = 1 > 5 = 1 > 33 = 1 > 24 = 3 > 6 = 2 > > HTH > > > > > On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 10:58 AM, JOHN PATTEN <johnpat...@me.com> wrote: > >> Hi All… >> >> I am attempting to get the total number of times specific words in a text >> passage are selected by students. The way I’m doing this is by recording >> the word numbers selected by each student and storing them in a database. >> I end up with list of numbers representing the selected words, something >> like this: >> 3 >> 5 >> 6 >> 6 >> 24 >> 24 >> 24 >> 33 >> 130 >> 109 >> … etc. etc. I would like to determine the number of times the same words >> are selected by the students and then control their font size, make the >> font size larger the more often the text is selected. So the teacher’s >> report would be the same passage of text with the font sizes of the text >> increased based on how many times the word was selected by the students. >> >> I’m not sure how to get the counts for the selected words. These list of >> word numbers could be quite long, depending on how many students are in the >> class and the length of the passage. I have not done anything like this >> before so I’m looking for any advice. Should I be dumping the list into an >> array and then working some kind of array magic? Can I just use a repeated >> find script and increment a variable for each item in my list? >> >> I didn’t want to spin my wheels too long, and this is probably pretty >> basic, but I can’t remember coding a solution to something like this in the >> past. >> >> Thank you! >> John Patten >> SUSD >> _______________________________________________ >> 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