AW: to find the first numeric line?

[Tiemo Hollmann TB]

Its about 20,000 lines.
I have made it with cutting into halves, which works ok. Perhaps I give it a
timestamp test compared to just looping through.
Tiemo

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> Gesendet: Donnerstag, 31. Januar 2013 18:56
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> Hi.
> 
> 
> If you sort your alphanumeric list, you will, of course, already know that
> the alphas sort before the digits, so the first digit will be down a bit.
> 
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> 
> But how long is that list? After sorting, if you loop through using the
> "repeat for each..." variant and exit accordingly, I cannot imagine that
it
> would take more than an instant to find the first digital char. Old
> fashioned but trusty.
> 
> 
> I have done binary searches, splitting data in halves as you go so that
you
> cut down processing time, mainly finding stuff in long HC datasets.
> 
> 
> Craig Newman
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> From: Tiemo Hollmann TB <toolbook at kestner.de>
> To: 'How to use LiveCode' <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>
> Sent: Thu, Jan 31, 2013 11:54 am
> Subject: to find the first numeric line?
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> 
> Hello,
> 
> I have a list with alphanumeric and numeric content. After sorting numeric
> I would like to find the first line with a numeric first char. (the non
> numeric lines before can contain also numeric chars). I would like to have
> a kind of lineoffset(isNumber(first char.),list,), but that's not
prebuilt.
> 
> What would be the fastest or most straight forward way to look up such a
> list? Just looping through? Testing the first char every half of the list
> in a loop? Or is there a function I don't think of?
> 
> Thanks for any pointers
> 
> Tiemo
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