Sort question

Yves COPPE yvescoppe at skynet.be
Sun Oct 3 10:43:30 EDT 2010


Le 03-oct.-10 à 16:32, Ben Rubinstein a écrit :

> This is really the same as Mark suggested, but should work even if  
> the numbers aren't zero padded:
>
> function sortByMonthAndDay tText
>   set the itemDelimiter to "/"
>   sort lines of tText ascending numeric by item 1 of (word 2 of each)
>   sort lines of tText ascending numeric by item 2 of (word 2 of each)
>   return tText
> end mouseUp
>
> (I think Mark probably meant "&" instead of "and")
>
> Ben





hi Ben

I still have a problem

some first names have 2 words !!!

and the sort is not correct

Should it be possible to sort on item 2 (tab delim of the list) and  
reorder the lsit afterwards ??


Greetings.

Yves COPPE
yvescoppe at skynet.be




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