sorting by date senile?
Alex Tweedly
alex at tweedly.net
Wed Mar 9 16:59:14 EST 2005
Mark Waddingham wrote:
> dateItems can be used to sort, but you'd need to sort by each item in
>
>turn:
> put <list of dateItems> into tList
> repeat with n = 1 to 7
> sort lines of tList ascending numeric by item n of each
> end repeat
>
>(the stability of Transcript's sort means that this works fine)
>
>
>
That should be
> repeat with n = 7 down to 1
> sort lines of tList ascending numeric by item n of each
> end repeat
otherwise you finish up with the final sort being by the least important
item; you want to do from "most minor" to "most important" in order for
the stable sort to help.
And you can do from "6 down to 1", not "7 down to 1" - who cares what
day of the week it is :-)
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