sorting words ?

[Geoff Canyon]

Note that words can also be delimited by tabs and crs, which doesn't allow
for a simple substitution for sorting by items/lines, and would make for
some odd results pretty much no matter what method you use. There is also
the fact that this is six words:

test
this thing  and this
"thing right here"

I *think* the sensible output to sorting the above would be:

and test thing "thing right here" this this

each separated by a single space, with no leading or trailing spaces.

On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 11:28 AM, <jbv at souslelogo.com> wrote:

> Well, I don't want to keep this thread going forever but still...
> I do understand Mark's explanations, but still I don't understand
> this :
>
> since this is allowed (and returns the expected result) :
>    get "the      quick brown  fox    jumped over     the lazy         dog"
>    set itemdel to space
>    sort items of it ascending
>
> why not have the engine temporarily replacing the current itemdel
> with space, do the sorting of words, and then setting itemdel back to its
> previous value... Of course this would be transparent to the coder...
> Some will say "what's the use ? Simply set the itemdel to space"...
> But this would allow words sorting, as well as sorting in more
> complex data structures, such as words inside items inside lines...
>
> jbv
>
>
> > On 2015-12-09 13:42, jbv at souslelogo.com wrote:
> >> Hi Mark,
> >>
> >> I am probably missing something, but items can be separated by multiple
> >> itemdelimiters too, but nevertheless the sorting function works, as in
> >> this
> >> example :
> >>    get "12,5,,4,10,,,11,24"
> >>    sort items of it ascending numeric
> >>
> >> it returns ,,,4,5,10,11,12,24
> >> and no compilation error...
> >
> > Right - but:
> >
> > "1,2,,,,3,4,5"
> >
> > Is a list of 8 items - 3 of them empty.
> >
> > "the    quick   brown fox  jumped"
> >
> > Is a list of 5 words - multiple item delimiters mean something, multiple
> > spaces are just a single 'delimiter' in this context.
> >
> > Warmest Regards,
> >
> > Mark.
> >
> >
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