On 5/28/13 1:46 PM, Andrew Kluthe wrote:
Ah, I should have been more clear in my example.
Item 1 is a string consisting of a name and a number with a space in
between. The other items I have not provided examples of here, because they
contain information unrelated to the sort but may have made what I am
trying to do more clear.
If i sort by item 1 I would assume that "MO 8" would be placed before "MO
12" but it stops when it comes to the number.
I beleive this is because the "1" in "12" in the example above comes before
"8". I wish it would consider "12" an entire number in the match, but I
understand why it doesn't work this way because it is using ASCII numbers
to sort them yes?
I always get in the habit of setting the itemDelimiter right before a sort,
so i don't think it's getting changed.
Does this do it?:
sort lines of fld 1 numeric by word 2 of each
sort lines of fld 1 by word 1 of each
On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 1:22 PM, <dunb...@aol.com> wrote:
There is an undocumented feature, though it is noted in the user notes
under "sort" and "sort container" in the dictionary:
sort by sortKey1 & sortKey2 & sortKey3...
all in one line. Both methods produce stable multiple sorts.
Craig Newman
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From: Tiemo Hollmann TB <toolb...@kestner.de>
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Subject: AW: text sortType
How about sorting twice
sort lines of sReportText numeric by item 2 of each
sort lines of sReportText by item 1 of each
didn't tested
Tiemo
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Hello Ya'll,
I am trying to sort some tab delimited data by item 1 of each. Item 1 of
each is a name and a number.
Kansas 1
Kansas 3
MO 3
MO 8
Anyhow, when I run the sort as
sort lines of sReportText by item 1 of each
I get it sorted pretty close, but entries with the same name and a
different number are not sorted numerically after being sorted
alphabetically.
Are there any built in options or tricks I could use to get the desired
result without having to write a custom sort function for this seemingly
simple task?
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Andrew Kluthe
and...@ctech.me
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