Numeric sorting problem

[Jeanne A. E. DeVoto]

At 12:29 PM +0000 3/12/05, Karen wrote:
>sort lines of field "List Stocks" descending numeric by item 5 of each
>
>Then nothing happens, the sort order remains unchanged.  I've been trying
>various hacks, but all with no result - I can't get it to sort on the
>numeric fields.
>[...]
>Could the leading spaces affect the sort?

You might try this to sort without the spaces:

   sort lines of field "List Stocks" descending numeric by word 1 to 
-1 of item 5 of each

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