Help me with my inability to see a simple solution

[Alex Tweedly]

On 17/12/2010 00:59, william humphrey wrote:
> Thanks Alex - tested working also.
>
Only because our test data isn't hard enough :-)
It should have

> repeat with i = N+1 to pMax
>   put i & comma after tMissingList
> end repeat

inserted immediately before the return statement, to cover the case 
where the missing numbers are at the end of the expected range.

-- Alex.




> On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 8:48 PM, Alex Tweedly<alex at tweedly.net>  wrote:
>
>> function other pMin, pMax, pList
>>>     put empty into tMissingList
>>>     put empty into tDuplicateList
>>>
>>>     -- sort the data if needed
>>>     -- sort items of pList ascending numeric
>>>
>>>     put pMin-1 into tLast
>>>     repeat for each item N in pList
>>>         if N = tLast+1 then
>>>             put N into tLast
>>>             next repeat
>>>         end if
>>>         if N = tLast then
>>>             put N&  comma after tDuplicateList
>>>             next repeat
>>>         end if
>>>         repeat with i = tLast+1 to N-1
>>>
>>>             put i&  comma after tMissingList
>>>         end repeat
>>>         put N into tLast
>>>
>>>     end repeat
>>>     return (char 1 to -2 of tMIssingList)&cr&  \
>>>             (char 1 to -2 of tDuplicateList)
>>> end other
>>
>