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> >> message-block: copy []
> >> foreach file-name sort/reverse message-directory [
> >> file-contents: read file-name
> >> insert message-block file-contents
> >> ]
> >>
> >> sorting the message-directory before use, not the message-block
> >> with the contents of each file.
>
> >Is this any different than what I suggested yesterday? I agree with the
> >solution, I just don't understand why you found this version to work but
> not
> >mine. Just curious.
>
> It does seem strange that
>
> message-block: copy []
> foreach file-name sort/reverse message-directory [
> file-contents: read file-name
> insert message-block file-contents
> ]
>
> and
>
> message-block: copy []
> foreach file-name message-directory [
> file-contents: read file-name
> insert message-block file-contents
> sort/reverse message-block
> ]
>
> wouldn't accomplish the same thing. I'd like to know, too.
Actually, I do see, now. I typed the wrong block name! What a "block"
headed manuveur ;-). I meant to explain was this:
message-block: copy []
sort/reverse message-directory
foreach file-name message-directory [
file-contents: read file-name
insert message-block file-contents
]
Sorry for the confusion. I use a similar file name scheme, and sorted it as
such. But when I translated it into your names, I typed the wrong block
name. I should have typed out the code segment, and then I would have more
easily seen my own error. Beside's, Anton's version is cleaner by one
command!
I suspect that the reason that "sort/reverse message-block" within the
foreach loop didn't work had to do with what may have been the first line in
the file content block. I don't recall the order of the messages in the
test page you had set up yesterday, but could it have been sorting on a
first line that was not the date? Just a thought.
Thanks for the reply. Now I understand my error.
--Scott Jones
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