Hi,

> >I think that he can parse the string building a sortable block and then
rejoin
> >the data in a string.
>
> Would you please give an example?

My idea is like Anton's one. Andrew came with an interesting idea, but how
fast?
If the whole line had a fixed lenght, we could use another method, more fast,
here i presume lines are of different lengths.

Here i assume that numbers strings are right aligned and of fixed lengths and
separators are spaces (not tabs) to be a little more fast.

REBOL []
probe r: 10000 ;10000 lines
string: make string! 2000000
string: head insert/dup tail ""
{  454 en tw
12395 en th
  313 kai o
  175 oi de asdf
  313 eij thn
  174 eij ton
  124 kai ouk dffd fder
 4123 kai thn
  219 ek tou
  160 kai en tty ttq qzfcv
} r / 10

blk: make block! 2 * r ; 2 * number of lines in the string
s2: has [num rest] [
 clear blk
 parse/all string [
  some [
   copy num [any " " to " "]
   copy rest thru newline
   (insert insert tail blk num rest)
  ]
 ]
 to string! sort/skip blk 2
]
probe s2

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Ciao
Romano


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