He Curtis,
> The third tutorial, "Working with tables in PicoLisp", has the following
> code to sort a table:
> ...
> Still, it seems so complicated. Is there a simpler way of doing this?
Indeed! I wonder why there is so much and complicated code. You can do it all
out of the box.
: (setq *People
(quote
(name John phone 123456 age 56)
(name Fred phone 654321 age 35)
(name Fred phone 236597 age 38)
(name Hank phone 078965 age 23) ) )
-> ((name ...
# Sort by the second element (the name)
: (by cadr sort *People)
-> ((name Fred phone 236597 age 38) (name Fred phone 654321 age 35)
(name Hank phone 78965 age 23) (name John phone 123456 age 56))
# Sort by the 4th element (the phone nomber)
: (by cadddr sort *People)
-> ((name Hank phone 78965 age 23) (name John phone 123456 age 56)
(name Fred phone 236597 age 38) (name Fred phone 654321 age 35))
: (by '((L) (get L 4)) sort *People)
-> ... # same
# Sort by finding the element after 'name'
: (by '((L) (cadr (memq 'name L))) sort *People)
-> ((name Fred phone 236597 age 38) (name Fred phone 654321 age 35)
(name Hank phone 78965 age 23) (name John phone 123456 age 56))
# Sort by finding the element after 'age'
: (by '((L) (cadr (memq 'age L))) sort *People)
-> ((name Hank phone 78965 age 23) (name Fred phone 654321 age 35)
(name Fred phone 236597 age 38) (name John phone 123456 age 56))
—Alex
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