sorting - THANK YOU PAUL!!

[Paul Hibbert]

Sorry, I did miss the "numeric" sort, it worked with a short example, but using Colin's test script, this also works:

on mouseUp
   sort lines of fld "sortField" numeric by word 2 of each
   sort lines of fld "sortField" descending by word 1 of each
end mouseUp

Paul

On 2014-08-09, at 9:51 AM, Colin Holgate <coiin at verizon.net> wrote:

> I tried Craig’s approach, but with the correct syntax, not the condensed example he gave. I put your example list into field 1, and had this script in a button:
> 
> on mouseUp
>   put fld 1 into fld 2
>   sort fld 2 by word 1 of each & word 2 of each
> end mouseUp
> 
> I then scrambled (manually) the lines of field 1. That consistently gives back the list in the sorted order you showed.
> 
> Next I tried this script:
> 
> on mouseUp
>   repeat with a = 1 to 100
>      put item random(2) of "advanced,beginner" && random(100) into line a of fld 1
>   end repeat
>   put fld 1 into fld 2
>   sort fld 2 by word 1 of each & word 2 of each
> end mouseUp
> 
> Field 1 had a random list of advanced and beginner entries, with a level too, and after clicking the button field 2 showed the list as sorted.
> 
> Now, it’s an alpha sort not a numeric sort, and Paul’s approach, which was the same as Björnke’s, also fails in that way.
> 
> So, Craig’s suggestion was good, just not with the syntax expanded.
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