Help me with my inability to see a simple solution

[Robert Brenstein]

On 16.12.2010 at 19:29 Uhr -0400 william humphrey apparently wrote:
>My math skills are terrible but this is something I can do in excel but
>which should also be easy to do with a nested array in livecode. I want to
>build a function that returns the numbers that are out of sequence in a list
>of numbers. Say you are given (3,4,5,6,6,7,8,9,10,12,13,13,14) and the
>function should return:
>
>(1,2,11 - missing)
>(6,13 - duplicate)
>
>Can someone please help me write this function?
>
>Thanks in advance.


A quickie:

function getMissingNumbers pNumberList
   put empty into vOccurences
   repeat for each item vNumber in pNumberList
     add 1 to vOccurences[vNumber]
   end repeat
   get the keys of vOccurences
   sort lines of it numeric
   put line -1 of it into vLargestNumber
   put empty into vMissing
   repeat with i=1 to vLargestNumber
     if vOccurences[i] is empty then put i & comma after vMissing
   end repeat
   delete char -1 of vMissing
   return vMissing
end getMissingNumbers

function getDuplicateNumbers pNumberList
   put empty into vOccurences
   repeat for each item vNumber in pNumberList
     add 1 to vOccurences[vNumber]
   end repeat
   get the keys of vOccurences
   sort lines of it numeric
   put line -1 of it into vLargestNumber
   put empty into vDuplicate
   repeat with i=1 to vLargestNumber
     if vOccurences[i] > 1 then put i & comma after vDuplicate
   end repeat
   delete char -1 of vDuplicate
   return vDuplicate
end getDuplicateNumbers


You can of course combine these functions returning each set of 
values in a separate line or as an array. If you actually want to 
check for numbers that are out of sequence, the above won't do.

Robert