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  • Anyone have any tricks for comparing SELECT lists?

    From prairiepickster@21:1/5 to All on Thu Apr 29 11:11:06 2021
    Hello,

    To provide context: I am still plugging along on an old R83 compatible environment (for a few more months...).

    I was wondering if anyone had any tricks to compare SELECT lists (saved via SAVE-LIST) to find either:

    - differences
    - common elements

    and generate a third list .

    Years ago I wrote my own 'differencer' in MVBasic. Maybe I've been missing neat tricks for...a while now.

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  • From Bruce Ackman@21:1/5 to prairiepickster on Fri Apr 30 09:14:29 2021
    Do you have FL in your DM account?
    On Thursday, April 29, 2021 at 2:11:07 PM UTC-4, prairiepickster wrote:
    Hello,

    To provide context: I am still plugging along on an old R83 compatible environment (for a few more months...).

    I was wondering if anyone had any tricks to compare SELECT lists (saved via SAVE-LIST) to find either:

    - differences
    - common elements

    and generate a third list .

    Years ago I wrote my own 'differencer' in MVBasic. Maybe I've been missing neat tricks for...a while now.

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  • From prairiepickster@21:1/5 to Bruce Ackman on Mon May 3 12:03:03 2021
    Sorry, no FL .. assume a very obsolecent R83 type system... Ultimate+ flavour.

    On Friday, 30 April 2021 at 10:14:30 UTC-6, Bruce Ackman wrote:
    Do you have FL in your DM account?
    On Thursday, April 29, 2021 at 2:11:07 PM UTC-4, prairiepickster wrote:
    Hello,

    To provide context: I am still plugging along on an old R83 compatible environment (for a few more months...).

    I was wondering if anyone had any tricks to compare SELECT lists (saved via SAVE-LIST) to find either:

    - differences
    - common elements

    and generate a third list .

    Years ago I wrote my own 'differencer' in MVBasic. Maybe I've been missing neat tricks for...a while now.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From Rob Allen@21:1/5 to All on Wed May 5 12:25:04 2021
    Can you just read the POINTER-FILE items in a Basic program and manipulate them like any array?

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