On Sep 26, 2014, at 12:24 AM, Peter Bogdanoff wrote: > My first foray into arrays: > > I want to sort a 2D array by one of the keys. > > The data consists of several 2-line groups that are in a field. The lines > contain styled and linked characters that I want to retain after sorting: > > peaches > pears > > apples > oranges > > plums > grapes > > I want to sort the data by line 1 of each 2-line group, then display the > sorted data as styled text. > > I build an array: > > repeat with x = 1 to (the number of lines of field “tField" / 3) > put line 1 of field “tField" into tMultiArray[x][1] > put the htmlText of line 1 of field “tField" into tMultiArray[x][2] > put the htmlText of line 2 of field “tField" into tMultiArray[x][3] > delete line 1 to 3 of field “tField" > end repeat > > How do I sort this array by line 1 of the plain text of each group? > > Then, how do I extract the data from the array—I need the 2nd & 3rd values > only (the htmlText) to display again in the field (set the htmlText of line x > of field “tField” to…?)? > > Is this the best method to sort this kind of data? The data comes as search > results using Scott McDonald’s RunRev Planet Search tool, so I have to work > with what the tool gives me.
You could do it without any arrays: on sortIt tFldRef put the htmlText of tFldRef into tData put numtochar(4) into groupDiv put numtochar(5) into itemDiv replace "<p><p>" with groupDiv in tData replace"<p>" with itemDiv in tData replace groupDiv with cr in tData set the itemdel to itemDiv sort lines of tData by item 1 of each replace cr with "<p><p>" in tData replace itemDiv with "<p>" in tData set the htmltext of tFldRef to tData end sortIt Not tested, may need to do more parsing of HTMLtext before sorting…. But you get the idea. -- Peter Peter M. Brigham pmb...@gmail.com http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig _______________________________________________ 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
