All those forum efforts (except Richard's) ignore that the dictionary entry states that the "sort" command is a stable sort precisely so that you can do multiple sorts to sort by multiple chunks

Whether you do

  sort lines of tText by word 3 of each
  sort lines of tText by word 2 of each
  sort lines of tText by word 1 of each

or

repeat from i = 3 down to 1
  sort lines of tText by word i of each
end repeat

and whether you want to sort by "word i of each" or "item i of each" or "token i of each" or whatever, the multiple sort commands is the LC recommended way to perform  multi-level sort.


On 3/30/2022 4:16 PM, Craig Newman via use-livecode wrote:
I hate that one cannot edit previous posts here like we can on the forum.

I meant “tabs”. not “tase”.

Craig

On Mar 30, 2022, at 4:15 PM, Craig Newman <cr...@starfirelighting.com> wrote:

I am assuming here that there are spaces separating the chars in your list. The 
use of “words” will also delimit if those are tase instead of spaces. But the 
method is worth exploring…

Craig

On Mar 30, 2022, at 3:39 PM, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com 
<mailto:use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>> wrote:

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