Sort list alphabetically- ignoring first character if it is a space

Niggemann, Bernd Bernd.Niggemann at uni-wh.de
Mon Feb 20 16:29:46 EST 2023


> David V Glasgow wrote:
> I am trying to alphabetically sort a list of unique strings, some of which have 
> a leading space character.  I need these to sort as if the second character is 
> the first character rather than all space prefixed strings being bunched 
> together.

Would 

sort tData ascending by word 1 to -1 of each

work for you?

Kind regards
Bernd


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