Stable sorting on steroids
Richard Gaskin
ambassador at fourthworld.com
Wed Mar 18 18:41:58 EDT 2009
DunbarX wrote:
> One of the undocumented features in HC was this version of the sort command:
>
> Sort whatEver/howEver by sortKey1 && sortKey2 && sortKey3....
>
> So you can "sort lines of container by word 1 of each && word 3 of each".
>
> No limit. The sort order is from left to right.
>
> The docs, as in HC, imply you should run through multiple sorts, and boast
> they will remain stable.
>
> Good to see this lives on in Rev. (still undocumented).
Probably just an oversight. Did you flag it in the RQCC?
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