Sort of a problem

Jim Hurley jhurley0305 at sbcglobal.net
Fri May 11 14:09:57 EDT 2012


Thanks Jerry. That is what I was looking for.

There is some magic going on behind the scenes with that "by ... of each" that I never really caught on to.

Jim


> 
> Message: 5
> Date: Thu, 10 May 2012 21:23:36 -0700
> From: Jerry Jensen <jhj at jhj.com>
> To: How to use LiveCode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>
> Subject: Re: Sort of a problem
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> This seems to do the job. No polish, but you'll get the idea.
> .Jerry
> 
> Aw, crap, forgot about no attachments. Here's the code:
> 
> ------------------------------------------------
> 
> on mouseUp
>   local tList
>   put fld "Streets" into tList
>   sort lines of tList by pickStreet(each)
>   put tList into fld "Streets"
> end mouseUp
> 
> function pickStreet pName
>   if word 1 of pName is in "NSEW" then
>      return word 2 to -1 of pName
>   else
>      return pName
>   end if
> end pickStreet
> 
> -----------------------------------------------------
> 





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