Very Computer

This was only tried on D3/Linux.  It is free software, but it may be broken.
 Use it at your own risk.  

When I omitted the s;*;* output conversion, the List processor seemed to
omit processing the correlative altogether, so
LEVELS showed null string instead of the desired 0.  So leave 007 as-is.

I'd wanted something a bit more selective, but there doesn't seem to be a
processing code to change all "*" to "3", so sadly every character BUT
letters and digits seem to act as field separators.  Which is close enough
for my purposes, I guess.

001 S
002 0
003 L
004
005
006
007 s;*;*
008 aif 0 = '' then '0' else 0(mc/an)(L0)  + '1'
009 r
010 1
011
012
013
014
015
016
017 Dcount of fields in item id. LIST MYFILE "tom*dick.harry" LEVELS says 3

It seems dangerous to me to assume that MC/AN will only leave delimiters.
It would be safer if you knew with certainty that a particular file's
item-ids were delimited with periods, colons, or whatever.  I vote for a
basic call in the dictionary of every file.

Robert Herbin

Quote:> Here's a new tool;  create an item in MD called LEVELS as
> follows, and then for any file you can sort/select based on how many
> punctuation-delimited fields the item id has.
> Null string item ids have LEVELS of zero,
> but  "tom"  and   "dick.harry"  have LEVELS of one and two respectively.

> This was only tried on D3/Linux.  It is free software, but it may be
broken.
>  Use it at your own risk.

> When I omitted the s;*;* output conversion, the List processor seemed to
> omit processing the correlative altogether, so
> LEVELS showed null string instead of the desired 0.  So leave 007 as-is.

> I'd wanted something a bit more selective, but there doesn't seem to be a
> processing code to change all "*" to "3", so sadly every character BUT
> letters and digits seem to act as field separators.  Which is close enough
> for my purposes, I guess.

> 001 S
> 002 0
> 003 L
> 004
> 005
> 006
> 007 s;*;*
> 008 aif 0 = '' then '0' else 0(mc/an)(L0)  + '1'
> 009 r
> 010 1
> 011
> 012
> 013
> 014
> 015
> 016
> 017 Dcount of fields in item id. LIST MYFILE "tom*dick.harry" LEVELS says
3

Quote:> It seems dangerous to me to assume that MC/AN will only leave delimiters.
> It would be safer if you knew with certainty that a particular file's
> item-ids were delimited with periods, colons, or whatever.  I vote for a
> basic call in the dictionary of every file.