sort container parameters

[Paul Dupuis]

Okay. Thank you Ralph.

I was reluctant to use "do" for performance reasons. The sort could be 
sorting a large number of lines - as many as several hundred sorts of a 
thousand to ten thousand lines.

I could of course do timing trials, but does anyone from the mothership 
(or anyone period) know if using "do" with a container sort causes any 
appreciable performance hit? All the data is in a variable (vs fields).


On 3/2/2021 5:19 PM, Ralph DiMola via use-livecode wrote:
> I found that you must us a "Do"(thank heaven for "Do"s) if you want to make variable any LC token that colorizes like "stack", "the", "field", "button", "put" or "ascending".
>
> I don't think "Do" is a kludge is this case.
>
> Ralph DiMola
> IT Director
> Evergreen Information Services
> rdimola at evergreeninfo.net
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Subject: sort container parameters
>
> I just discovered much to my dismay that you can not execute the following:
>
> put "ascending" into tDirection
> soft lines of tContainer tDirection international
>
> apparently neither the sort direction (ascending|descending) nor the sort type (international|text|datetime|numeric|binary) can be variable!
>
> That means if you want to parameterize a sort direction, you have to do something like:
>
> if tDirection is "ascending" then
>     sort lines of tContainer ascending international else
>     sort lines of tCOntainer descending international end if
>
> I see this a a bug or perhaps a failure to fully robust impliment the sort container command? Does any one else see this as a bug?
>
> I suppose I could work around it with a "do" but that seems like a cludge
>
> do ("sort line of tContainer" && tDirection && tSortType)
>
> Thoughts? Comments? Opinions? Am I expecting too much of LiveCode to have sort direction and type actual parameters?
>
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