Need help with comparing two files...

[phab]

Hello guys.

I wrote something like a ranking (most active users).
I store them in a file which looks like:

01|phab
02|bot1
03|anotherone
04|nickname
05|sweety
...

I generate the stats each Sunday (for example). Now I want the bot to inform the channel with something like:

"Active Users v1.0: phab isn't place #1 anymore, nickname got him! phab is now on place 03. Sweety is more active than anotherone this week, too."

I hope you understand... I want to say which user is activer than the others and went up in my ranking.

Any ideas how I could handle this? At the moment I dont know...

Please help!

Regards

[De Kus]

split them into a list like
[split $rankA \n] and [split $rankB \n]
after that you can compare them like
[lindex [split [lindex $rankA 0] |] 1] == [lindex [split [lindex $rankB 0] |] 1]
dont know if there is a more elegant way, maybe using it within a foreach loop compresses the code a bit.
if you have a missmatch, you can use lsearch to find the old/new rank.

[phab]

Thank you. I'll give it a try!

For other suggestions: Thanks!

[phab]

I can't get it working

I read the old-ranking file till it's eof.. but i dont know how to compare the right way

Any ideas?

[demond]

if your data is ordered by rank, there's no need of the first field

read the two files in 2 lists, then for each element of the first list compare its index to the same element's index in the second list (to find that index, use [lsearch])

[phab]

Thanks you. That's it ,-)