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Jhon Carlo
Jhon Carlo
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How to convert a text to a list

Mar 29, 2012 4:31 PM

I have a text with numbers like this: 24 12 4 65 33 etc (with no itemDelimiter).

I neet to sort this numbers, maybe I need to convert this text in a list, so how can I do to convert a text in a list?

 

Thanks.

437 Views   3 Replies   Latest reply: josh_chunick, Mar 30, 2012 12:58 PM
 
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  • Sean_Wilson
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    1. Sean_Wilson,
    Mar 29, 2012 8:32 PM   in reply to Jhon Carlo
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    You could try setting the itemDelimiter to SPACE, then walk through your string item by item dropping the values into a list:

    on split str, pat
  tDelim = the itemDelimiter
  the itemDelimiter = SPACE
  tList = []
  nItems = str.item.count
  repeat with i = 1 to nItems
    tList.append( value(str.item[i]) )
  end repeat
  the itemDelimiter = tDelim
  return tList
end

    Then you can sort the list returned and do what you want with it.

     
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    2. Jhon Carlo,
    Mar 30, 2012 4:09 AM   in reply to Sean_Wilson
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    Obviously it works perfectly!
    Many thanks Sean!!!

     

     
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    3. josh_chunick,
    Mar 30, 2012 12:58 PM   in reply to Sean_Wilson
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    for completeness, here's a javascript implementation:

     

    function js_split(str, delim) {

      var tmpList = list();

      var arr = str.split(delim);

      for (var i in arr) tmpList.add(parseInt(arr[i]));

      return tmpList;

    }

     
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