sort by two paremeters?

[Terry Judd]

You need to do the second sort first followed by the first sort. So...

set the itemDel to tab -- or whatever your item delimiter is
sort lines of tList numeric by item 2 of each
sort lines of tList by item 1 of each

...that's it.

HTH,

Terry...

On 14/4/08 2:49 PM, "Nicolas Cueto" <niconiko at gmail.com> wrote:

> Before I go ahead and script something complex,
> I'm wondering if Rev already has a built-in way of
> doing the following sort.
> 
> Given a list of 2-item lines, such as
> 
>   a 1
>   d 3
>   c 3
>   c 2
>   a 3
>   d 2
>   a 2
>   c 1
>   d 1
> 
> I'd like the list to be sorted by item 1,
> and, in the case of lines with the
> same item 1, sorted by item 2, thus:
> 
>   a 1
>   a 2
>   a 3
>   c 1
>   c 2
>   c 3
>   d 1
>   d 2
>   d 3
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> --
> Nicolas Cueto
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Dr Terry Judd
Lecturer in Educational Technology (Design)
Biomedical Multimedia Unit
Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry & Health Sciences
The University of Melbourne
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