1. RE: Sorting numbers
- Posted by CK Lester <cklester at yahoo.com>
Mar 21, 2001
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Last edited Mar 22, 2001
You will no doubt get many "efficiency experts" posting modified code...
Here's my contribution. 
> Here is the code that I was working on before I got stuck.
>
> global procedure onClick_sparebutton()
> atom AB1, AB2, AB3, AB4, AB5, AB6, AB7, AB8
> atom BC1, BC2, BC3, BC4, BC5, BC6, BC7, BC8
> atom CA1, CA2, CA3, CA4, CA5, CA6, CA7, CA8
-- Instead of using all these variables,
-- create a sequence of the values you want...
atom NUM_TO_GET
NUM_TO_GET = 24 -- in case you want to change later
sequence allVars
allVars = repeat( {} , NUM_TO_GET )
> atom sumAB, sumBC, sumCA, sumtotal
> atom sparenumber
> object y
> AB1 = getNumber( ab1 )
..snip...
> CA8 = getNumber( ca8 )
for t=1 to NUM_TO_GET do -- this gets all the numbers you want
allVars[t] = getNumber( allVars[t] ) -- what's up with this?
end for
> sumAB = AB1 + AB2 + AB3 + AB4 + AB5 + AB6 + AB7 + AB8
> sumBC = BC1 + BC2 + BC3 + BC4 + BC5 + BC6 + BC7 + BC8
> sumCA = CA1 + CA2 + CA3 + CA4 + CA5 + CA6 + CA7 + CA8
Oops. I just noticed this. You can solve this way:
1. Create three sequences, AB, BC, and CA, or
2. Create one sequence with three elements...
allVars = { AB_Sequence , BC_Sequence , CA_Sequence }
> sumtotal = sumAB + sumBC + sumCA
>
> y=sort({AB1,AB2,AB3,AB4,AB5,AB6,AB7,AB8,BC1,BC2,BC3,BC4,BC5,BC6,BC
> 7,BC8,CA1,CA2,CA3,CA4,CA5,CA6,CA7,CA8})
sorted_vars = sort( AB_Sequence ) -- etc.
> I relize it is very imcomplete, but I just don't understand the sort
> function
Good luck!
