Dumb sort question

[Mr X]

for those on Macs, switch from Rinaldi does that real fast...

www.xcmdfactory.com

click on xcmds and then find switch...



-----Original Message-----
From: metacard-admin at lists.runrev.com
[mailto:metacard-admin at lists.runrev.com]On Behalf Of Mark Luetzelschwab
Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2002 1:08 AM
To: metacard at lists.runrev.com
Subject: Re: Dumb sort question


This might be a dumb response, but if you are generating the data, can 
you generate it in a transposed form?

a,b,c,d
1,2,3,4

a,1
b,2
c,3
d,4

-ml



On Wednesday, December 4, 2002, at 04:59 PM, 
metacard-request at lists.runrev.com wrote:

> Dumb sort question But how can I sort a variable featuring 4 lines 
> with several
hundreds of items in each, so that (for instance) items of
line 4 are sorted numeric ascending, and (that's important)
items of other lines being moved according to the new
position of each item of line 4 ?


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