Without running and testing it, which I may be able to do over the weekend, my initial suggestion would be that as you are counting up the set of numbers and deleting frin the original set. It is likely that some of the target numbers are moved with each deletion and therefore not tested at all. as in
start numbers
123 321 213 413 356
(psuedo code)
loop with i = 1 to 5
if item x is a hit then delete item x
repeat
list is now 321 213 413 356 and x is 2
therefore the new top item does not get tested.
If you change the line of code to start at the back ofthe list, the problem goes away.
Steve
At 20:49 21/11/03 -0500, you wrote:
Steve, I see the coding bug got you, too. I used to spend nights rewriting scripts with a friend of mine (who's name is steve too) and we would try to get it down to the smallest number of lines. Ahh the good old days.
Anyway, the problem called for no duplicate numbers in each group of three So 112, and 333 would be out completely but the code I used to create the field did that for me, already. The actual group was 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 and then finding every combination of a group of three that did not overlap in any way SO 123 and 312 could not work and 112 was no good etc.
The answer I came up with was 35 possible combinations. The numbers I came up with will follow in my next email.
And yes I know the code was wordy but that was because I actually was putting separate code from three different sources together and never tried to clean it up.
My real problem was that "is among" was not finding sets of groups that were similar but transposed. In my need to find a solution I added the part about converting a line like 123 into 1,2,3 so that "is among" could work.
I really want to understand why it didn't work though. Any clues???
Thanks Tom
On Nov 21, 2003, at 8:11 PM, Steve Laming wrote:
Ooops, 222 still gets deleted, so it would be better to explicitly test for duplicates than rely on the addition test therefore:
On MouseUp
put false into found
put "1,2,3" into search$
-- sort field "myList"
repeat with x = the number of lines in field "myList" down to 1
put char 1 of line x of field "mylist" into test1
put char 2 of line x of field "mylist" into test2
put char 3 of line x of field "mylist" into test3
If test1<>test2 And test1<>test3 AND test2<>test3 then
If test1 is among the items of search$ and test2 is among the items of search$ and test3 is among the items of search$ then
If found then
delete line x of field "myList"
beep
else
put true into found
end if end if end if end repeat
end MouseUp
I think that is now it!!!! (I hope)
Steve
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