Silly Sort Question

[Mark Smith]

Gregory, you can use functions as part of your sort command, like this:


on mouseUp
   sort lines of fld 1 numeric by getMonthNum(word 1 of each)
end mouseUp

function getMonthNum aMonth
   return lineOffset(aMonth,the monthNames)
end getMonthNum


Cheers,

Mark

On 18 Oct 2005, at 17:04, Gregory Lypny wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
>     I have a simply twelve-line list with the name of a month as  
> the first word on each line.  The list is not in order, and I'd  
> like to sort it January to December using the monthNames.  Don't  
> know how.
>
>         sort lines of theList by first word in each [need  
> connection to the monthNames here]
>
>     Otherwise, I suppose a simple repeat loop, although clunky,  
> would do.
>
>     Regards,
>
>         Greg
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