help with custom sort

[Ron Noice]

Perfect. Thanks very much (and thanks to Jacque, of course) for a great solution. 
It works exactly as advertised and the basic idea can be adapted in many ways.
Thanks.

... Ron

______________________________________________
*** From: Buster  (wouter.abraham at scarlet.be)
*** Dated: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 21:53:26 +0200

 Hi,

 This is a similar problem as in the "Silly sort question" thread
 Adapt Jacques' excellent solution like in:

 on mouseUp
    ### adapt to taste
    ### sortbydate(item xx of each)
    ### numeric ascending or descending
    sort lines of fld 1 numeric by sortbydate(each)
 end mouseUp

 function sortbydate pDate
    replace word 1 of pDate with word 1 of pDate && "1," in pDate
    convert pDate to seconds
    return pDate
 end sortbydate

 Greetings,
 Wouer

 On 19 Oct 2005, at 20:04, Ron Noice wrote:

 > I have a field containing several items including one for month/
 > year pairs such as:
 > Oct 2005
 > Apr 2005
 > Feb 2004
 > Jan 2006
 > Apr 2005
 > Aug 2005
 >
 > Is there any clever way to get these lines sorted chronologically?
 > What I've been doing so far is generating a real date from them:
 > Oct 1, 2005
 > Apr 1, 2005
 > etc.
 > in a hidden item and sorting that.
 > This works but I'm betting there's a way to do a custom sort
 > thingee that works directly from the original values. But so far
 > I've come up with nada. Any clever ideas?
 >
 > ... Ron
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