sort lines by length

[Mark Wieder]

Dave-

Tuesday, September 23, 2014, 1:59:39 PM, you wrote:

> sort lines of fld 1 numeric by length(each)

> I think "numeric" is needed if the lengths can be over 9
> characters. Otherwise it will do a text sort on the lengths.

See bug^H^Henhancement request 9910. This has bugged me for some time
now. Is there ever a case when you'd want to sort alphabetically by
length()?

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-Mark Wieder
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