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average

average(numberList)

Value returned: number equal to the arithmetic average of the comma-separated list of numbers

Examples

average(1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10)

repeat with N = 1 the number of lines of field "Number Data"

  put line N of field "Number Data" into item N of theNumbers

end repeat

put average(theNumbers)

Demo Script

on onAverage

 repeat with numLine = 1 to the number of lines of me

   put the number of words of line numLine of me into¬

   item numLine of wordsInEachLine

 end repeat

 put "There are an average of" && average(wordsInEachLine) && ¬

 "words in each line of this field." into sayIt

 answer sayIt

end onAverage

Placeholders

numberList

A comma-separated list of numbers.

1,2,3,4,5

"1.2,2.2,3.2"

In AppleScript, the list must be enclosed in brackets:

{1,2,3,4,5}

average

average

Examples

Demo Script

Related Topics

Placeholders

numberList