sort by length of line
Devin Asay
devinasay at gmail.com
Sun Dec 11 23:49:32 EST 2011
On Dec 11, 2011, at 9:04 PM, <dunbarx at aol.com>
wrote:
>
> I can do this the long way, but is there a clever sortkey that will sort lines by the length of those lines?
>
> In other words, if I have a variable myVar with:
>
> aaaaaaa
> xxx
> bbbb
>
> I want to write something like:
>
> sort myVar by the length of each
>
> to yield:
>
> xxx
> bbbb
> aaaaaaa
Actually, Craig, what you wrote works just fine. I tried:
sort lines of fld 1 by the length of each
Worked a treat.
Devin
Devin Asay
Humanities Technology and Research Support Center
Brigham Young University
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