Sort of a problem

[Jerry Jensen]

The light bulb lit over my head a while ago when I understood a line from Jacque that scrambles the order of lines in a var:
sort lines of var by random(63000) -- or something similar
Elegant, that! the value after the "by" is calculated for every line, even without using "each".

On May 11, 2012, at 11:09 AM, Jim Hurley wrote:

> 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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