Return Total of a Given Repeated Number in a List

[Terry Judd]

Probably not the shortest approach, but I’d probably do either this…

function countItemRepsInList pList, pItem
   replace comma with cr in pList
   filter pList with pItem
   return (the number of lines in pList)
end countItemRepsInList

or this

function countItemRepsInList pList, pItem
   put 0 into tCount
   repeat for each item tItem in pList
      if (tItem = pItem) then add 1 to tCount
   end repeat
   return tCount
end countItemRepsInList

Terry

From: use-livecode <use-livecode-bounces at lists.runrev.com> on behalf of Roger Guay via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>
Date: Friday, 24 May 2024 at 12:09 PM
To: How to use LiveCode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>
Cc: Roger Guay <irog at mac.com>
Subject: Return Total of a Given Repeated Number in a List

Hi all,

Please, what’s the easiest way to return the total number of a given repeated number in a list of numbers? IOW, how many times is 2 repeated in a list containing 1,2,3,2,4,2,5,2,8 etc. Appreciate your help.


Thanks,

Roger
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