Looping though a numerically indexed array

[David Bovill]

Ah that explains it. The extents works but I seem to remember for each is considerably faster
On 2 Sep 2020, 16:29 +0100, Brian Milby via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>, wrote:
> As long as the array is indexed starting at 1 with no gaps it should work by looping for each element. I just did a quick test to confirm. I built a 100 element array and it looped in order. I deleted 2 keys and then it didn’t. I then added those 2 missing keys back and it worked again.
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> > On Sep 2, 2020, at 10:55 AM, David Bovill via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
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> > I’m pretty sure there must be a way to efficiently loop through numerically indexed arrays
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> > 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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