Associative Lists
- Posted by Larry Gregg <lgregg at BIG12.METROBBS.COM> Apr 03, 1997
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Mr Jeff Zeitlin (jeff.zeitlin at execnet.com) writes about: > -- assoc.e - associative lists Some implementations of Snobol4 provide built in functions to sort tables. For example, sort(table,i) will sort in ascending fashion, and rsort(table,i) will do a descending sort. The "i" parameter has the value of 1 when you wish to sort by key, and 2 for a value sort. I think that some of these implementations convert the table to an N row by 2 column array, or sequence in Euphoria. You might consider adding this functionality. Anyway, as an example of usage of associative lists for list members who have never used them, you can count the number of occurrences of distinct words in a text file, storing each word in the key and the count in the value. With a sort feature, you could then sort it and print it out. Good stuff. Larry Gregg lgregg at big12.metrobbs.com