sort by two paremeters?
Terry Judd
tsj at unimelb.edu.au
Mon Apr 14 00:55:57 EDT 2008
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.
>
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> Nicolas Cueto
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Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry & Health Sciences
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