Looping though a numerically indexed array

[Bob Sneidar]

It appears I have that backwards?

Bob S


> On Sep 2, 2020, at 8:28 AM, Bob Sneidar <bobsneidar at iotecdigital.com> wrote:
> 
> Ditto, and I am not sure what noticeable impact one method would have over another. There was some blurb a long time ago about how these keys are internally sorted. I believe what was proposed is that a set of NUMERIC keys beginning with 0 would actually sort correctly. 
> 
> Bob S
> 
> 
>> On Sep 2, 2020, at 8:24 AM, Ralph DiMola via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>> 
>> David,
>> 
>> Nope you have to sort them NUMERIC. As you said this is the only way I know of. I do this all the time. I don't know of any other way.
>> 
>> put the keys of tMyArray into tKeys
>> sort lines of tKeys numeric
>> repeat for each line tKey in tKeys
>> 
>> -- do what you want with tMyArray[tKey]
>> -- this line will put the array data in the message box (assuming there is no other sub keys in each numeric array entry).
>> put tMyArray[tKey] into tMyVar
>> 
>> end repeat
>> 
>> Ralph DiMola
>> IT Director
>> Evergreen Information Services
>> rdimola at evergreeninfo.net
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: use-livecode [mailto:use-livecode-bounces at lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of David Bovill via use-livecode
>> Sent: Wednesday, September 02, 2020 10:55 AM
>> To: How to use LiveCode
>> Cc: David Bovill
>> Subject: Looping though a numerically indexed array
>> 
>> I’m pretty sure there must be a way to efficiently loop through numerically indexed arrays
>> 
>> Repeat for each key and repeat for each element does not seem to sort the keys in numeric order,. Of course I can get the keys and sort them before repeating - but is there a more efficient way?
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