I read your post a bit closer. Can you just repeat for each line tLine in tText, then increment a counter and use the counter as the key in the array?
Bob S put "Bob" & cr & "Andy" & cr & "Fred" into tText repeat for each line tWord in tText add 1 to tCount put tWord into myArray [tCount] end repeat > On May 5, 2017, at 07:52 , Mike Bonner via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > Bob, can you do a custom sort using order by with sqlite? I did some > digging and see a way, but for this purpose it seems complicated and I'm > wondering if there is something better than what I found. Basically what I > found was this.. > > ORDER BY > CASE ID > WHEN 4 THEN 0 > WHEN 3 THEN 1 > WHEN 1 THEN 2 > WHEN 5 THEN 3 > WHEN 6 THEN 4 > END > > So to my thinking one would build a large "order by" with all the > words and their associated line numbers so you could do > > WHEN 'myfirstword' THEN 0.. etc for each word and its line number in > the list. (Always interested in new ways) _______________________________________________ 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