help with custom sort

[Ron Noice]

Thanks. I've adopted/adapted the previous idea and it worked well so I'm=
 going to stick with it. But will keep your suggestion for future reference=
 -- never can tell when these things will come in handy! Thanks.

... Ron

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*** From: FlexibleLearning at aol.com =A0(FlexibleLearning at aol.com)
*** Dated: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 02:07:08 EDT

=A0Hi Ron

=A0I found this synchronized list =A0sorting handler in the Scripter's=
 Scrapbook.
=A0It may need a bit of tweaking for =A0rev, but may give you some ideas...

=A0local lKeyData, =A0lLineCounter

=A0on sortBy keyField -- parallel sorting of linked =A0flds
=A0put fld keyField into lKeyData
=A0put =A0"data1,data2,data3" into dataFields -- fill in your fld names =A0here
=A0repeat with i =3D 1 to the number of items of =A0dataFields
=A0put 0 into lLineCounter -- must be reset =A0prior to each sort
=A0sort lines of fld (item i of =A0dataFields) by key()
=A0end repeat
=A0end sortBy

=A0function =A0key
=A0add 1 to lLineCounter
=A0return line =A0lLineCounter of lKeyData
=A0end key

=A0Based on an old HyperCard script by =A0Brett Sher.

=A0HTH

=A0/H


=A0-----
=A0I have a field containing =A0several items including one for month/year=
 pairs
=A0such as:
=A0Oct 2005
=A0Apr =A02005
=A0Feb 2004
=A0Jan 2006
=A0Apr 2005
=A0Aug 2005

=A0Is there any clever =A0way to get these lines sorted chronologically? What=
 I've
=A0been doing so far is =A0generating a real date from them:
=A0Oct 1, 2005
=A0Apr 1, 2005
=A0etc.
=A0in a =A0hidden item and sorting that.
=A0This works but I'm betting there's a way to do =A0a custom sort thingee that
=A0works directly from the original values. But so far =A0I've come up with=
 nada. Any
=A0clever ideas?

=A0... Ron
=A0-----

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