Newbie question
Mark Wieder
mwieder at ahsoftware.net
Mon Sep 5 13:43:02 EDT 2005
Eric-
Monday, September 5, 2005, 8:21:13 AM, you wrote:
> Even if such a line could be written with HC (the engine was very
> tolerant), it's not a perfect form :-)
> Rev docs say:
> sort [marked] cards [of stack] [direction] [sortType] by sortKey
> So in your case:
> sort cards by the short name of this cd
Nonetheless, I believe Joe's original line *is* correct HC syntax:
sort [ascending | descending][text | numeric | international |
dateTime] by <field or expression>
so the distinction is that Rev's more powerful sort command just
doesn't backwardly support the simplified HC syntax.
--
-Mark Wieder
mwieder at ahsoftware.net
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