Find a number

I think that you are not going to get much help on this with so little information. Are you able to post any patch that you have created so far and/or more detail about the scope of these numbers - integer/float, range of values. Is your [coll] currently just a list of single values or is there other data in there as well.

coll allows only operations to adresses (not to the data content): sort, insert, move, next, renumber, call and return, associate, dump all, delete... and file in/out.

"check if it contains free beer, and if yes, multiply the 3rd element with 77" has to be done outside.

building a generalized routine of the sort "get the data from index 3, do something with it, write the result back into index 3" is not complicated.

the help file might not show all commands, you want to look into the object´s reference.

I guess he wants to add repetitions into same row.

If it is so, then :

Hello,

Thank you for your help.

I am sorry for had given so little information.

What I am trying to do is to receive numbers with 9 digits; add a extra digit - for counting; and, if the number is repeated, to add 1 to the counter - the extra digit.

I am using the coll to kepp data and the zl.look to extract the numbers from the coll and to compare.

My patch is now too much confunsing. Actually I have two in the same one. The first is keeping the data and comparing (above). The second one (below) I was developing it to add 1 to the digit number 10.

Maybe it´s to confunsing. I will try to clean it and I will post it again.

Thank you very much for your help

you should never name a patch same as existing max object/external.

post comments in the patch in english ...

and yes, it is not clear what you want to do.

I understand feeding a coll with 9 digit numbers,

adding indexes using idx (same could be done with counter).

Allready there you could merge as shown in my example

to stack repetitions and do something with them,

for example add number of repetitions as that "extra" digit

....

what is completely confusing is how many digits you want to add to

original 9 ones ?

if you receive more than 9 numbers, you can't just add 1 digit- digit number 10.

I hope you understand waht one digit is ?

one single item 0-9

Ok,

it´s changed

have a look at this, is that kind of what you want ?

Thanks,

in what you´ve send each repetition goes to a new colunn, is that right?

It could work. I was thinking adding the number of repetitions to the number. Something like this:

999999999 2 - meaning this number was sent twice

888888888 5 - meaning this number was sent five times

I know what a digit is. I was thinking in something like the image.

But maybe what you´ve sent could work for my intention. The problem it will be if a number has high number of repetitions.

Thank you very much

one can avoid adding repetitions to columns,

but add only number of repetitions if you want that,

or add IDs as they get in into new columns and count number of repetitiins

on coll dump.

But I don't see any use for numbering ID's of incomming numbers ?

if you have 999999999 9

that means it got ID 9 ,

a repetition could have ID 88.

what then ?

makes no sense.

Either remove ID's and only count number of repetitions,

or maybe keep very first ID of a number and add number of repetitions as

THIRD value :

999999999 16 3 (16 was first ID) (number got repeated 3 times)