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

[Richard Gaskin]

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 using the word delimited type help with this? e.g.:

   sort lines of field 1 by word 1 to -1 of each


 > I just had a hilarious conversation with ChatGPT on this challenge.
 > We ended up having a disagreement about whether a keyword “ignoring”
 > exists in Livecode.  Please tell me it doesn’t.

I don't recall having seen an "ignoring" keyword in LiveCode.

But I have seen countless articles about Vincent Cerf, Mark Cuban, Steve 
Wozniak, and a great many others much smarter than me cautioning against 
making any investment in ChatGPT for serious work involving precision 
and accuracy.

Once you see it's a caffeinated auto-complete, the useful and less 
useful applications for a tool that literally can't understand a single 
word it spits out become clearer.

This background from Stephen Wolfram is helpful:
https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2023/02/what-is-chatgpt-doing-and-why-does-it-work/

ChatGPT is fascinating, but since this isn't the first time we've been 
through the Gartner hype cycle with an "AI" tech (I first joined AAAI 
back when Expert Systems were a thing), even more fascinating has been 
watching humans forget that the Trough of Disillusionment will happen 
before we eventually reach the Plateau of Productivity.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gartner_hype_cycle

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