From the dictionary entry for “sort”:
If you don't specify a direction, the sort is ascending.
One of the following items:
• ascending -sorts in ascending order
• descending -sorts in descending order
> On Aug 7, 2017, at 3:23 PM, Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode
> <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>
> I have a listField containing a number of words which I want to order so the
> longest comes
> first . . .
>
> doing this:
>
> sort lines of fld "myGuff" by length(each)
>
> sorts the words, but the shortest one comes first…
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