Gregory Lypny wrote:
> I've got a list field with tab-separated strings on each line,
> which, in effect, creates the illusion of columns. When the field is
> shown, I'd like users to be able to sort it using any column "title" as
> the sort key (e.g., sort by column 1, column 2, and so on). What's the
> best way to handle this given that the string in each column is not one
> word?
Assuming you make a user property for each of the heading buttons which
corresponds to its column number, you could do this:
put the uColumnNumber of the target into tColNum
set the itemdel to tab
sort by lines of fld "Whatever" by item tColNum of each
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Richard Gaskin
Fourth World Media Corporation
Multimedia Design and Development for Mac, Windows, UNIX, and the Web
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