[REBOL] Question on Sort ? Re:

[Al . Bri]

Mike asked:
 How would I sort to get name/ages in descending order by name?

Have a look at sersort.html in the Users guide. There's a nice little
tutorial in there that should help you a lot.

Andrew Martin
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[REBOL] Question on Sort ? Re:(2)

[mdb]

Mike asked:
 How would I sort to get name/ages in descending order by name?

Have a look at sersort.html in the Users guide. There's a nice little
tutorial in there that should help you a lot.

Andrew Martin

Thanks Andrew. That is exactly what i needed.

I got so wrapped up in solving the problem that i forgot to look at the
obvious place, Documentation...

Also as soon as i sent the message, i realised that once i sorted by name
is ascending sequence, just processing the block from tail to head, gives
me the data in descending sequence!!!

Mike.

[REBOL] Question on Sort ?

[mdb]

Hi All,

The following code sorts the name-ages block by name in ascending order,
and also keeps the age with the corresponding name.

 name-ages: ["Larry" 45 "Curly" 50 "Mo" 42 "Mike" 48]
== ["Larry" 45 "Curly" 50 "Mo" 42 "Mike" 48]
 sort/skip name-ages 2
== ["Curly" 50 "Larry" 45 "Mike" 48 "Mo" 42]

1. How would i sort to get name/ages in descending order by name ?

2. How would i sort to get name/ages in ascending order by age ?

3. How would i sort to get name/ages in descending order by age ? 

I've a feeling it's got something to do with the compare refinement, but at
this point in time, it doesn't make much sense to me.

Thanks in advance.

Mike.