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[Brian Yennie]

Here's on last stab at using Rev's built-in sort:

sort lines of fld 1 numeric by (lineOffset(word 1 of each, fld 
1)*100000 + (word 2 of each))

Woo hoo! Everyone loves cryptic one-liners! =P

- Brian

> On 4/1/05 3:38 PM, "Howard Bornstein" <howard.bornstein at gmail.com> 
> wrote:
>
>> I would have used the same code as yours, however, it doesn't preserve
>> the original alphabetic order (which I assumed he wanted--if not then
>> your code is perfect).
>>
>> My code (and Frank's) ends up with the list sorted like this:
>>
>> IPAE 1
>> IPAE 7
>> IPAE 16
>> LAG 1
>> JKAL 2
>> JKAL 3
>> JKAL 11
>>
>> Yours puts LAG 1 at the end, since it sorts the entire list
>> aphabetically. So if he wants to keep the original alpha order intact
>> and just sort within the alpha groups, you need to add a little more
>> control to the sorts. Otherwise the simple solution is fine.
>
> Ah... that explains it...thanks for letting me know!
>
> Ken Ray
> Sons of Thunder Software
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> Email: kray at sonsothunder.com
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