I made an inexcusable error when applying the solutions in the benchtests.
When adjusting Mike's solution to handle commas in the list I omitted to
adjust the itemDel. The corrected solution is below.
As a result, Mike's solution is not only very fast, but also sub-sorts the
alpha component and ha
Thanks for keeping us up to date, Hugh.
Of course, another solution might be to write a polite letter to whoever is
giving you this data suggesting they collect it differently in the first place.
:-)
Cheers
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h numeric by item 2 of each
sort h by item 1 of each
replace "*" with "" in h
put h into fld 2 -- output
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--- On Fri, 7/2/10, FlexibleLearning wrote:
> From: FlexibleLearning
> Subject: Re: Intelligent sorting: A bit
That's beautiful stuff! See? Humanity CAN work together for the common good!
Bob
On Jul 1, 2010, at 11:19 PM, FlexibleLearning wrote:
> I made an inexcusable error when applying the solutions in the benchtests.
> When adjusting Mike's solution to handle commas in the list I omitted to
> adjust
BTW this is going straight into my Shamelessly Exploit folder.
Bob
On Jul 1, 2010, at 11:19 PM, FlexibleLearning wrote:
> I made an inexcusable error when applying the solutions in the benchtests.
> When adjusting Mike's solution to handle commas in the list I omitted to
> adjust the itemDel. T
t h numeric by item 2 of each
> sort h by item 1 of each
> replace "*" with "" in h
>
> put h into fld 2 -- output
> end mouseUp
>
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> --- On Fri, 7/2/10, FlexibleLearning wrote:
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>> From: FlexibleLearning
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