sort question for today

[larry at significantplanet.org]

Hi Paul,
That is essentially what I did, but not as elegantly as your solution.
But it works and it is very quick, so I'm happy.
Thanks very much  for helping me see an even better way.
Larry

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul Hibbert" <paulhibbert at mac.com>
To: "How to use LiveCode" <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>
Sent: Monday, September 29, 2014 1:28 AM
Subject: Re: sort question for today


Larry,

This should work…

   put line 7 to -1 of fld myStats into tLinesToSort
   sort lines of tLinesToSort by word 2 of each
   put tLinesToSort into line 7 to -1 of fld myStats

You can only sort all Lines or Items of a container, so if you need to sort 
specific lines or items, you must put them into a separate container to do 
the sort, then replace them.

Paul

On Sep 28, 2014, at 8:35 PM, larry at significantplanet.org wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am trying to sort lines 7 through the last line of a field.
>
> This doesn't work:
> sort lines (7 to last) of field myStats by word 2 of each
>
> Does anyone know the code that will work?
>
> Thanks, Larry
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