> On 15 Sep 2016, at 7:06 AM, Paul Dupuis <p...@researchware.com> wrote: > > For those using LC 8.1, and have tried the new filter command's support > for arrays, I have a question: > > I see you can filter by keys or elements from the documentations, which > is great, but I don's see how I would do another common item > > Let say I have an array that is a table (a common model) where the rows > are numeric keys and the columns keys are "field" names. So > > tArray[1]["col1"] some value > tArray[1]["col2"] some other value > tArray[2]["col1"] still another value > tArray[2]["col2"] and yet one more value > > Can I use the new filter command to filter on a specific column and get > all the rows matching? For example match where ["col2"] contains "some" > which would only return row 1. > > I realize I can write code to do this (and have). I was wondering if I > am missing something obvious and there is a way to do this using the new > filter command enhancements in 1 line.
You aren’t missing anything. Actually what you are describing is probably better implemented with the by clause I have suggested here: http://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=18309 <http://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=18309> You could then: filter elements of tArray by each[“col2”] is “some” Or alternatively if you need match “something” and “somewhere” filter elements of tArray with “some*” by each[“col2”] Or if you need to do something interesting: filter elements of tArray by someFunction(each) function someFunction pArray return pArray[“col2”] is “some" end someFunction Cheers Monte _______________________________________________ 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
