sorting

[Björnke von Gierke]

sort theList by word 2 of each
sort theList by word 1 of each

sort order is retained in-between commands, that's why it works.

On 09 Aug 2014, at 08:24, larry at significantplanet.org wrote:

> I have a field I want to sort.
> Each line has 4 words.
> I want to sort by the first word (ascending) and then do a 2nd sort by the 3rd word without changing the order of the first word.
> 
> Example:
> 
> apple  box
> apple  pie
> apple  zoo
> baby  blue
> baby  rattle
> baby  zoo
> etc.
> 
> TIA
> Larry
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