Sorting lines

[Jan Schenkel]

--- runrev260805 at m-r-d.de wrote:
> Hi, 
> 
> i have textfile, which contains data. Each line of
> this text file contains serveral values, which are
> separated by ;.
> Each line has the  same number of values. My
> problems is, that i have to sort the lines by one of
> the values, in this case by the value of the 4th
> field.
> 
> 
> My textfile looks something like this. There are
> about 42 fields per line.
> 
> 320;4999;219,Peter;329;366
> 1000;999;10101;Mark;211;555
> 2;214;25;Peter;212:667
> 2;213;13;Josh;215;666
> 3;23;14;Mark;0;0
> and so on
> 
> 
> I have to sort the textfile by the 4th value (the
> names). I need all lines with the same name in
> field4 one below the other - similar like this:
> 
> 2;213;13;Josh;215;666
> 3;23;14;Mark;0;0
> 1000;999;10101;Mark;211;555
> 2;214;25;Peter;212:667
> 320;4999;219,Peter;329;366
> 
> How should i solve this? 
> 
> I hope i described it a little understandable.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Matthias
> 

Hi Matthias,

Try the following:
##
set the itemDelimiter to ";"
sort lines of tVariable by item 4 of each
##

Hope this helped,

Jan Schenkel.

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