Character sort

[David Vaughan]

On Thursday, April 25, 2002, at 01:03 , Yates, Glen wrote:

> Ok here's a shot at it:
>
>   put "" into tempVariable
>   put "" into outputVariable
>   repeat for each char i in yourVariable
>     put i & return after tempVariable
>   end repeat
>   sort lines of tempVariable
>   repeat for each line i in tempVariable
>     put i after outputVariable
>   end repeat

Just out of idle curiosity, I tried:

put ""rubbish" into theBin
set itemDelimiter to empty
sort items of theBin

Rev crashed.
Funny, that.

cheers
David

>
> I wrote this off the top of my head, maybe there's an easier way, but 
> this
> should work. Note: this does not change your original variable, but 
> puts the
> sorted data into a new variable "outputVariable". If you want your 
> original
> variable to be sorted and changed, then use the following code:
>
>   put "" into tempVariable
>   repeat for each char i in yourVariable
>     put i & return after tempVariable
>   end repeat
>   sort lines of tempVariable
>   put "" into yourVariable
>   repeat for each line i in tempVariable
>     put i after yourVariable
>   end repeat
>
> Hope this helps,
> -Glen Yates
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard James [mailto:rjames at apple.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 9:26 AM
> To: use-revolution at lists.runrev.com
> Subject: Character sort
>
>
> Please help.
>
> I need a quick way to ASCII sort the letters of a one word variable.
>
> Thanks
> Richard James
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