sorting zip codes

[Rich Lague]

Thanks Dar,

	Your suggestion was the easiest. All I had to do was remove "numeric".
Rich


On Sunday, July 10, 2005, at 08:30  PM, Dar Scott wrote:

>
> On Jul 10, 2005, at 5:45 PM, Sarah Reichelt wrote:
>
>>> I’m trying to set up a sort of a stack of address cards by zip code. 
>>> Some of the zips are only the first 5 numbers and some of them are 
>>> in the form “xxxxx-xxxx”.
>>>
>>> The script, “sort cards numeric by field "zip"“ sorts all the 9 
>>> number zips first, then sorts the 5 number zips-- not what I want.
>>
>> Untested but worth a try:
>>
>> set the itemDelimiter to "-"
>> sort cards of this stack numeric by item 1 of field “zip”
>
> I wonder if 'sort cards text by field "zip"' would do what is needed.  
> I would think it would sort like this:
>
> 00234
> 00234-1234
> 00235
>
> Dar
>
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