Sort a container - AScending / Descending

[Warren Kuhl]

Sarah,

Thanks for the quick response!  This is exactly what I was looking for.

All the best,
Warren

On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 11:33 PM, Sarah Reichelt
<sarah.reichelt at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 12:57 PM, Warren Kuhl<warrenkuhl at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Is there anyway to sort multiple items in a variable mixing ascending and
> > descending?
> >
> > ie. sort lines of tData by word 1 of each, word 2 of each, word 3 of each
> > ...where word 1 and word 2 are acscending and word 3 is descending.
>
> Sorts are non-destructive, so just do them in sequence with the least
> important first and the most important last.
> e.g.
>
> sort lines of tData descending by word 3 of each
> sort lines of tData by word 2 of each
> sort lines of tData by word 1 of each
>
> (I may have got this the wrong way around, but just alter the order of
> the lines to get what you want.)
>
> HTH,
> Sarah
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