Getting a single column of a datagrid

[Bob Sneidar]

One way to do that is to filter the resultant text from Printkeys(). Lets say you have an array with 3 keys, test1,test2,test3. You only want the values from test3. 

put printkeys(myArray) into theArrayText
filter theArrayText with "*test3: *"

Voila! Now you only have values from the test3 key. 

Bob


On May 15, 2012, at 5:34 AM, Peter M. Brigham, MD wrote:

> Thanks, I found your variants in the archives, nice adaptation, and clearly useful for utility work. What I have been needing is a way of examining the contents of an array at a glance, so the version that formats it as an indented list is most useful.
> 
> -- Peter
> 
> Peter M. Brigham
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> 
> On May 14, 2012, at 11:45 AM, Bob Sneidar wrote:
> 
>> It came from Trevor that way. I had to clean it up as well. It works though. I used this technique to create my own kind of printKeys function. Instead of breaking out each key as a line in the text, and then the value as key:value, I create a single line for each key with a value, and then I bracket all the key names to distinguish them from the value. This has several advantages. I can now filter the result by any of the keys. I can also reconstruct the array after the filtering is done so I can effectively filter an array. Pretty handy at times. 
>> 
>> Let me know if you want those functions as well. 
>> 
>> Bob
>> 
>> 
>> On May 12, 2012, at 7:27 AM, Peter M. Brigham, MD wrote:
>> 
>>> Thanks, Bob. 
>>> 
>>> BTW, don't know why but as you can see your LC scripts tend to have asterisks bracketing keywords, not to mention extra blank lines. Are you pasting formatted text that's getting mis-translated?
>>> 
>>> I can clean this up and try it out, thanks again.
>>> 
>>> -- Peter
>>> 
>>> Peter M. Brigham
>>> pmbrig at gmail.com
>>> http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On May 10, 2012, at 5:48 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote:
>>> 
>>>>> *function* PrintArray @pArray, pDimension, pFullData
>>>>> 
>>>>> *if* pDimension is empty *then* *put* 0 into pDimension
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> *put* the keys of pArray into theKeys
>>>>> 
>>>>> *sort* theKeys numeric
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> *repeat* for each line theKey in theKeys
>>>>> 
>>>>>  *if* pArray[theKey] is an array *then*
>>>>> 
>>>>>     *put* _printCharXTimes(space, pDimension * 5) & theKey & cr
>>>>> aftertheText
>>>>> 
>>>>>     *put* pArray[theKey] into theTempArray
>>>>> 
>>>>>     *put* PrintArray(theTempArray, pDimension + 1, pFullData) aftertheText
>>>>> 
>>>>>  *else*
>>>>> 
>>>>>     *if* pFullData *then*
>>>>> 
>>>>>        *put* _printCharXTimes(space, pDimension * 5) &  theKey & ":" &&
>>>>> pArray[theKey] & cr after theText
>>>>> 
>>>>>     *else*
>>>>> 
>>>>>        *put* _printCharXTimes(space, pDimension * 5) &  theKey & ":" &&
>>>>> line 1 of pArray[theKey] & cr after theText
>>>>> 
>>>>>     *end* *if*
>>>>> 
>>>>>  *end* *if*
>>>>> 
>>>>> *end* *repeat*
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> *return* theText
>>>>> 
>>>>> *end* PrintArray
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> *private* *function* _printCharXTimes pChar, pTimes
>>>>> 
>>>>> *local* theStr
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> *repeat* with i = 1 to pTimes
>>>>> 
>>>>>  *put* pChar after theStr
>>>>> 
>>>>> *end* *repeat*
>>>>> 
>>>>> *return* theStr
>>>>> *end* _printCharXTimes
>>>> 
>>> 
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