Assigning turtles a ranked number in netlogo

Question

I'm trying to assign turtles a number which I can tell them to move in order of. Using previous posts and some general playing around I've managed to create a ranked order list of the turtles, but now I want to assign turtles a number based on their relative position in that list.

Example: current list: [(turtle 8) (turtle 1) (turtle 9) (turtle 0)] desired turtle designation: turtle 8 = 1, turtle 1= 2, turtle 9 = 3, etc.

So far I've reached:

globals [rank_list]
turtles-own [var.
            rank]
set rank_list sort-on [var.] turtles

create-turtles (50)
 [setxy (random-float max-pxcor) (random-float max-pycor)
 set var. random-normal 0.5 0.175
  if var. > 1 [set sociability 0.99999999]
  if var. < 0 [set sociability 0.00000001]
foreach rank_list ask ? [set rank ...     ;this is where I get stumped 

to go 
ask turtles [foreach rank [ask ? [move]]]
end

any tips for assigning values based on the ranked order in a list would be very much appreciated!

Answer 1

You can use n-values to generate the ranks and the variadic version of foreach to loop through both the rank-list and the ranks at the same time:

turtles-own [ var rank ]

to setup
  clear-all
  create-turtles 50 [
    setxy random-pxcor random-pycor
    set var random-normal 0.5 0.175
  ]
  let rank-list sort-on [ var ] turtles
  let ranks n-values length rank-list [ ? ]
  (foreach rank-list ranks [ ask ?1 [ set rank ?2 ] ])
end

But the question is: do you really need a rank variable? Why not use the rank-list directly:

foreach rank-lisk [ ask ? [ move ] ]

Or even just sort your turtles on var each time:

foreach (sort-on [ var ] turtles) [ ask ? [ move ] ]

The latter is not the most efficient, but if you have only 50 turtles and do this only once per tick, you'll never notice the difference.

Answer 2

Using Nicolas' answer above I've achieved the goal or ranked order movement. It's still a bit processing-power-intensive for the 2000 turtles I'm working with, but at least it runs!

turtles-own [var]

to ranking
let rank-list sort-on [var] turtles
let ranks n-values length rank-list [ ? ]
    (foreach rank-list ranks [ask ?1 [set var ?2] ] )
end

to make_turtles
    create-turtles (5)
    [set var random-normal 0.5 0.2
      set color scale-color blue var 0 1
      set size 3]
     ranking
     ask turtles [set label var]

     end

to move
 let rank-list sort-on [var] turtles
ask turtles [foreach rank-list [ask ? [ forward random 9]]]
end

to setup
  clear-all
  make_turtles

end
to go
  move
end