On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 03:36:50PM -0500, Bill Metzinger wrote:
> hi all
> I'm using the following match pattern in applescripts to sort lines
> of tab delimited text
>
> {match pattern:"^([^ ]* ){3}(.*)$", sort subpattern
> key:all_subpatterns}
> {match pattern:"^([^ ]* ){7}(.*)$", sort subpattern
> key:all_subpatterns}
>
>
> it works wonderfully to sort by the 3rd column or 7th column or
> whatever number indicated
> this fails to sort when my text only has 3 columns and I ask to sort
> the third column
>
> my question
> how can I change the pattern to sort the third column even if it's
> the last column?
This might work for you:
^([^\t\n]*(?:\t|$)){3}(.*)$
(I expect you'll need to escape the backslashes for AppleScript.)
Ronald
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