Sorting Columns

[JB]

Thanks Bob!

Any explanation is helpful since
I am fairly new to data grids.

The commas are thousands delimiters.

John Balgenorth


On Mar 3, 2015, at 4:13 PM, Bob Sneidar <bobsneidar at iotecdigital.com> wrote:

> dgData returns an array. dgText returns delimited text. if the commas are thousand delimiters, then strip them. I’ve often thought of trying to implement a “displayAs functionality for Datagrids, like Excel does, where the value is one thing but the display is another. Your situation really underscores the need for this.
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> Bob S
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> On Mar 3, 2015, at 06:18 , dunbarx at aol.com<mailto:dunbarx at aol.com> wrote:
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> An easy way is to extract the full dataset, perhaps with the "dgData". This will give you a tab and return delimited list. Then you might sort by a function:
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