On 2 Jun 2006, at 22:49, Richard A Clarke wrote:
Can I do a 'sort lines...' based on how many times a particular
character
appears in the line?
It's not difficult to do if you can define a custom sort handler in
your scripting language. For example, in newLISP (wot I use):
(set 'contents (parse (read-file ((main-args) 2)) "\n"))
(sort contents
(fn (a b)
(< (count (list ",") (explode a))
(count (list ",") (explode b)))))
(map println contents)
will sort the lines into ascending comma-count order. Not too quick,
but short.
You could write something similar in AppleScript (a bit more work,
though :-)).
Pete
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