[TIP] Sorting by ValueList and synchronized sorting

Richard Gaskin ambassador at fourthworld.com
Thu Jun 19 10:32:40 EDT 2008


J. Landman Gay wrote:
> But wait, there's more! Some time ago when the list was discussing 
> custom parallel sorts, Dick Kriesel offered this enhancement:
> 
>   split varB by comma
>   sort items of varA by varB[itemOffset(each,varA)]
> 
> If Dick's still reading the list, he should stand up and take a bow.

Heap powerful medicine.

Dick does some intriguingly sophisticated scripting.  He's not one to 
shy from complex tasks, and comes up with some strikingly elegant 
solutions, like that one.

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  Richard Gaskin
  Fourth World Media Corporation
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