Character sort
David Vaughan
drvaughan55 at mac.com
Wed Apr 24 16:44:01 EDT 2002
On Thursday, April 25, 2002, at 01:03 , Yates, Glen wrote:
> Ok here's a shot at it:
>
> put "" into tempVariable
> put "" into outputVariable
> repeat for each char i in yourVariable
> put i & return after tempVariable
> end repeat
> sort lines of tempVariable
> repeat for each line i in tempVariable
> put i after outputVariable
> end repeat
Just out of idle curiosity, I tried:
put ""rubbish" into theBin
set itemDelimiter to empty
sort items of theBin
Rev crashed.
Funny, that.
cheers
David
>
> I wrote this off the top of my head, maybe there's an easier way, but
> this
> should work. Note: this does not change your original variable, but
> puts the
> sorted data into a new variable "outputVariable". If you want your
> original
> variable to be sorted and changed, then use the following code:
>
> put "" into tempVariable
> repeat for each char i in yourVariable
> put i & return after tempVariable
> end repeat
> sort lines of tempVariable
> put "" into yourVariable
> repeat for each line i in tempVariable
> put i after yourVariable
> end repeat
>
> Hope this helps,
> -Glen Yates
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard James [mailto:rjames at apple.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 9:26 AM
> To: use-revolution at lists.runrev.com
> Subject: Character sort
>
>
> Please help.
>
> I need a quick way to ASCII sort the letters of a one word variable.
>
> Thanks
> Richard James
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