sorting zip codes

Dar Scott dsc at swcp.com
Sun Jul 10 23:30:42 EDT 2005


On Jul 10, 2005, at 5:45 PM, Sarah Reichelt wrote:

>> I’m trying to set up a sort of a stack of address cards by zip code. 
>> Some of the zips are only the first 5 numbers and some of them are in 
>> the form “xxxxx-xxxx”.
>>
>> The script, “sort cards numeric by field "zip"“ sorts all the 9 
>> number zips first, then sorts the 5 number zips-- not what I want.
>
> Untested but worth a try:
>
> set the itemDelimiter to "-"
> sort cards of this stack numeric by item 1 of field “zip”

I wonder if 'sort cards text by field "zip"' would do what is needed.  
I would think it would sort like this:

00234
00234-1234
00235

Dar

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