Return Total of a Given Repeated Number in a List

[Roger Guay]

Very clever, Mike. I never thought to use itemDelimiter this way. I’ll have to play with this.

Thanks very much,

Roger

> On May 23, 2024, at 7:37 PM, Mike Kerner via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> just spitballing:
> let's call our containers "tSearchingFor" and "tSearchString"
> 
> *set* the itemDelimiter to comma & tSearchString & comma
> 
> *put* the number of items in tSearchingFor - 1 into tNum
> 
> *if* tSearchString begins with tSearchingFor & comma *then* *add* 1 to tNum
> 
> *if* tSearchString ends with comma & tSearchingFor *then* *add* 1 to tNum
> 
> On Thu, May 23, 2024 at 10:08 PM Roger Guay via use-livecode <
> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> 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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