Paolo Mantovani wrote:

> 
> Jonathan Kaye ha scritto:
>> Hi all,
>> Thanks to the excellent advice I've received I now have (I believe) a
>> working and bug free macro. One difficult (for me) piece of it was a
>> macro called "cutspace" which scans a string until it finds either a
>> fullstop or a space (let's call it a chunk) and gathers all the tones
>> (indicated by 1234 in the string) and puts them at the end of the chunk.
>> It works its way through the string moving the tones (if they are
>> present) to the correct location. This function is only a small part of a
>> much larger one which encodes strings in such a was as they are sorted
>> correctly. The encoding are generated in a different column from the
>> originals and the sort is based on that column (invisible to the reader,
>> of course). Here's the code. If there are any OO Basic features I've
>> missed that would simplified things, I'd be grateful to hear about them.
> 
> Not sure, but perhaps it could be useful:
>
http://codesnippets.services.openoffice.org/Office/Office.SimpleNaturalSortAlgorithm.snip
> 
> Here you can find some basic code that performs various string crunching
> (move, search&replace, sort) using Regular Expressions from the
> OpenOffice.org. API
> 
> ciao
> Paolo M
Thanks Paolo. Noted and bookmarked. I'll play with them and get to know them
better. It's nice to know the their author too.
Jonathan
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