sorting words ?

[Kay C Lan]

Thanks. Much appreciated.

On Sat, Dec 12, 2015 at 9:43 PM, Mark Waddingham <mark at livecode.com> wrote:

> On 2015-12-12 13:48, Mark Waddingham wrote:
>
>> 1) Find the ranges of the things you want to sort in the string.
>>
>> 2) Compute the new order of the substrings (from the ranges) based on
>> the requested sort.
>>
>> 3) Rebuild the string replacing the original ranges in the original
>> string with the reordered substrings.
>>
>
> So the outcome of this very useful discussion doesn't get 'lost' in
> amongst the list archives, I've updated Hermann's enhancement request for
> more powerful 'sort' with the above:
> http://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=16569
>
>
> Warmest Regards,
>
> Mark.
>
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