Hi Jürgen!
On Do, 26 Aug 2010, Jürgen Krämer wrote:
> Christian Brabandt wrote:
> > Hi Tom!
> >
> > On Di, 24 Aug 2010, Tom wrote:
> >
> >> On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 09:51:56PM +0200, Christian Brabandt wrote:
> >>> Hi Tom!
> >>>
> >>> On Di, 24 Aug 2010, Tom wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> How does one sort words with a line ? As example I have these numbers in
> >>>> a
> >>>> line:
> >>>>
> >>>> 400, 250, 125, 600
> >>>>
> >>>> I want to sort them so they will be 125, 250, 400, 600
> >>>>
> >>>> I have tried the visual command then !sort but that doesnt do it.
> >>>
> >>> :call setline(line('.'),join(sort(split(getline('.'))), ' '))
> >>>
> >>> regards,
> >>> Christian
> >>
> >> Amazing amazing that works also. Seems there is always more than one way
> >> to
> >> skin a cat.
> >
> > There is still room for improvement. For example if you consider this
> > line:
> > 400, 250, 125, 600, 100
> > this would be sorted to:
> > 100 125, 250, 400, 600,
> > (which looks not right if you look at the commas).
> >
> > So here is a slightly changed version:
> > :call setline('.',join(sort(split(substitute(getline('.'), ',', '', 'g'))),
> > ', '))
> >
> > (one line)
> >
> > Basically, this replaces the comma and adds it later back.
>
> you can take advantage of the second, optional argument to split() and
> save the call to substitute():
>
> :call setline(line('.'),join(sort(split(getline('.'), ',\s*')), ', '))
>
> This splits the line on every comma optionally followed by white-space.
> If there is a trailing comma, split() automatically removes it. Like in
> your second version the comma has to be added back later.
True, I didn't think of that version.
regards,
Christian
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