Filter an array by content

[Tom Glod]

A great question Jacque ....Helpful thread all around.

I have a tendency to think that any operation i perform to convert an
entire array into something else will take longer than to loop through the
keys.  I'm happy to be wrong ,and I imagine it depends on the number of
items in the dataset. But for my particular use at the moment, I find LC
performance to be excellent.

Bob I'm interested in your library......mostly learning the point at which
it makes sense to do that conversion and what kind of speedups can
occur.....have you done any benchmarks on it?

Great reminder & idea Monte

On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 6:19 PM Monte Goulding via use-livecode <
use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:

> Hi Jacque, does the output also need to be a sequential numeric array? If
> so then no variant of the filter command will help. If not then can’t you
> `filter elements of theArray with “*foobar*”``? It would be a nice addition
> to filter elements to have `as sequence` or something so the result had
> keys 1..N.
>
> > On 21 Jun 2019, at 6:56 am, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode <
> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> >
> > I need to filter a numeric array by the content of the keys, not by the
> keys themselves. Is there a way to do that without looping through the
> entire array and looking at each element?
> >
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