On Tue, 22 Feb 2000, Leston Drake wrote:
> Okay, I answered my own question.
>
> sort items of dValues descending
>
> is the right syntax. I forgot "items".
You also forgot "numeric", at least if you want to do a numeric sort,
which from the looks of it you do.
Regards,
Scott
PS: And you also forgot to send in a bug report about the MetaCard
crash, although at least with 2.3 I can't reproduce it ;-)
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> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> From: Leston Drake
> Subject: sorting
>
> Can anyone help me with sorting a list of numbers from largest to smallest?
>
> For example:
> if dValues = "0.8,1.1,1.6,0.6,2.1" then I want the result of the sort to be
> dValues ="2.1,1.6,1.1,0.8,0.6"
>
> I've tried using the sort command, but without success.
> I've only succeeded in crashing MC (EG: "sort dValues descending by amount" will
>kill MC)
>
> Is there a way to do this with the sort command? MC Help seems to indicate so, but I
>can't get figure out the syntax.
> I could obviously sort the list manually but I'm looking for something more
>efficient.
>
> TIA
>
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