[tw5] Re: Sort tiddlers by substring?

2020-09-06 Thread amreus
Eric, Outstanding. Thanks for sharing your expertise. I happen to be using 5.1.23-prerelease, so the new sortsub filter works perfectly. Also thank you for the example of splitting sub-strings using split and rest, as well as the technique for creating a temporary list, sorting that, and

[tw5] Re: Sort tiddlers by substring?

2020-09-06 Thread amreus
Heh, thank. That is exactly my current solution. I am wondering if there could be a new filter (or option) in the "nsort" family of filters which would ignore any non-number characters. I looked at the Javascript functions in sort.js and the sortTIddlers function in wiki.js for a clue but I

[tw5] Re: Sort tiddlers by substring?

2020-09-05 Thread Eric Shulman
On Saturday, September 5, 2020 at 2:10:56 PM UTC-7, amreus wrote: > > My "people" tiddlers consist of the person's name and an ID number to make > them unique. How can I sort the tiddlers by the ID number? example title: *Karl Roger Stanton (I234)* This is hard to do (but still possible) using

[tw5] Re: Sort tiddlers by substring?

2020-09-05 Thread 'Mark S.' via TiddlyWiki
You will likely save yourself hours of headaches if you create separate fields for id and name. On Saturday, September 5, 2020 at 2:10:56 PM UTC-7, amreus wrote: > > My "people" tiddlers consist of the person's name and an ID number to make > them unique. How can I sort the tiddlers by the ID