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And it's worth noting that the only reason it's come up here isn't related to building anything in LiveCode, but a battle of wits with someone else who isn't here and isn't using LiveCode. If there's a project-related reason why knowing the algo is important I'd help you find it. But for just settl...

I know this is an ancient thread, but people will still find it when searching, so here's a pretty simple way to count occurrences. The trick is that itemDelimiter can be more than one character. put "a million balloons were allowed" into myString set the itemdelimiter to "ll" -- (two lowercase L's)...

richmond62 wrote:And what was that reason?

I just told you. It's literally every sentence of my reply. That was the whole point.

Because I rarely find what I'm looking for in the docs. That's why when I went to look up random(), I thought, "They're not even gonna bother to mention what algorithm they use." I was right for a reason.

A few years ago a professor created a new algorithm, PCG. On her website she details the various qualities desirable in an algorithm, and how the existing algorithms aren't as good as PCG. Granted that she could be biased, but I haven't seen any reputable criticism of her work or her claims. I'd lov...

I was not at all surprised that the Dictionary is completely silent about what algorithm the random() function uses.

For example, for Javascript, it depends on the web browser, but most seem to use xorshift128+.

Anyone know what algorithm LiveCode uses?

It apparently was a corrupt database. I found the new "recover" command, which fixed the problem. Running from the MacOS Terminal:
Now I know how much hibiscus to use to make my tea.

When running this query in my stack: SELECT id,noteName,noteData from noteTable WHERE noteData LIKE "%hibiscus%" I get the error: revdberr,Database Error: The database disk image is malformed If I open the db in the MacOS app "DB Browser for SQLite", the query runs just fine. Also, my queries *used*...

Well, that’s what I want: when there’s no data in the next cell, I’d like the first cell to overflow into the next.

I don't suppose there's an easy way to get long text in one cell to overflow into the next cell in a Data Grid table, the way it would naturally in a spreadsheet?

It seems like the advantage of using an associative array, if there is one, is to make the code more readable. Referring to the cells this way makes sense: fruit[id] >> returns name, where "id" is a variable fruit[fName] >> returns id, where "fname" is a variable fruit[id]["quality"] >> returns qual...

Thank you very much. I can see that it works, but I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around it. Before you posted, I went ahead and made the functions with lineOffset, so at least that works too.

I'm facing a problem which reminded me of this thread. I'm unsure whether to use arrays or lineOffset, and unfortunately the documentation for multidimensional associative arrays is pretty meagre. Say I have a table of data (a string): 1 apple 3 2 banana 5 3 cherry 4 4 date 2 The columns are ID, nam...

Thank you all very much for the help.

I've mentioned 3 times that I'm running MacOS. Specifically, it's 10.13.6, not that it should matter.

It may be that Variable Monitor didn't cause my problems, but given all the downtime I had trying to get that and LC working, I'm not going to risk trying it again until I really need it.