Counting unique items in a file

[dunbarx at aol.com]

Hi.
You are getting empty because the information returned from the function is an array.
"combine " the array with "return and "comma"
Craig


-----Original Message-----
From: Skip Kimpel via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>
To: Dan Friedman <dan at clearvisiontech.com>
Cc: Skip Kimpel <skiplondon at gmail.com>; How to use LiveCode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>
Sent: Mon, Apr 27, 2020 1:52 pm
Subject: Re: Counting unique items in a file

Thanks Dan!

Upon very quick implementation, I am getting empty results back.  I think I
need to play around with this a little bit more but I feel you got me on
the right track.

Thanks again,

SKIP

On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 1:34 PM Dan Friedman <dan at clearvisiontech.com>
wrote:

> Skip,
>
> Haven't tested, but pope about this...
>
> function getUniqueNames inData,pColumn
>  put "" into uNames
>  set the itemDel to tab
>  repeat for each line l in inData
>    add 1 to uNames[item pColumn of l]
>  end repeat
>
>  return uNames
> end getUniqueNames
>
> You should get back an array keyed by the unique names, and how many
> instances of each one
>
>
> -Dan
>
>
>
> On 4/27/20, 10:25 AM, "use-livecode on behalf of Skip Kimpel via
> use-livecode" <use-livecode-bounces at lists.runrev.com on behalf of
> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>
>    Good afternoon LC'ers,
>
>    I am loading a tab delimited file into a variable and I need to pull
> out
>    all unique names from a certain column (let's say column 10) and count
> how
>    many times that name appears in that column.
>
>    I know there has to be an easy way of doing it.  Every time I try to
> start
>    coding this it get waaaayyy too long :)
>
>    Simple approach?
>
>    SKIP
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