sorting
dunbarx at aol.com
dunbarx at aol.com
Sat Aug 9 09:59:13 EDT 2014
Way back from 1987, and undocumented everywhere except in the user notes in the dictionary here, is this;
Multiple stable sorts may be implemented directly by concatenating sortKeys:
sort container by sortKey1 & sortKey2 & sortKey3...
Sortkey order determines the sorting sequence
So you can:
sort lines of yourList by word 1 of each & word 3 of each
Craig Newman
-----Original Message-----
From: Alex Tweedly <alex at tweedly.net>
To: use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>
Sent: Sat, Aug 9, 2014 5:52 am
Subject: Re: sorting
Larry,
can you be more explicit about how it doesn't work ?
Actually, can you explain better what you want to do ? You said you want
to sort by the 2nd and then the 3rd word - but gave an example that
appeared to show sorting by 2nd and 1st - and not even have a 3rd word
in any line.
So how about a slightly less terse description, and an example showing
both "before" and "after" and hopefully we can get you to where you want
....
-- Alex.
On 09/08/2014 09:14, larry at significantplanet.org wrote:
> Sorry, that doesn't work
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Björnke von Gierke" <bvg at mac.com>
> To: "How to use LiveCode" <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>
> Sent: Saturday, August 09, 2014 12:58 AM
> Subject: Re: sorting
>
>
>> 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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