Richmond. Replace "finish" with some char to use as a delimiter and switch lines 1 and two in each item. Then rereplace the "finish" and you are finished.
Craig Sent from my iPhone On Jan 16, 2013, at 9:06 AM, Richmond <richmondmathew...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have a socking great text file that reads in part something like this: > > Cook my cheese > fishface1 > finish > Shave my legs > fishface2 > finish > Paint my fingernails > fishface3 > finish > Wax my arms > fishface4 > finish > > and so it goes for about 72 pages (!!!) > > Now what I needs is a reordered lilst like this: > > fishface1 > Cook my cheese > finish > fishface2 > Shave my legs > finish > fishface3 > Paint my fingernails > finish > fishface4 > Wax my arms > finish > > and, as a fairly lazy slob, I have no great wish to effect that manually. > > But, for the life of me I cannot work out how to do that automatically, > either inwith or outwith Livecode. > > Richmond. > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode