Hey guys, thanks for all the possible solutions. I'm sure somewhere in here
I'll get it to do what I need. Special thanks to those that wrote code. Much
appreciate it!
Scott
On 10/24/18, 1:28 PM, "use-livecode on behalf of Niggemann, Bernd via
use-livecode" wrote:
here is my take,
here is my take, clumsy and not respecting all formatting requirements
Instead of
187.1
187.1.1
187.1.2
187.3
187.22
187.33
187.234
it sorts
187.1
187.1.1
187.1.2
187.22
187.234
187.3
187.33
Kind regards
Bernd
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I think this comes pretty close to the requirement. It breaks the lines
down into numeric/not numeric items, and then sorts from the least
significant (rightmost) to most significant items. For each sort, sorts
first by alpha, then numeric. That results in letters being sorted before
numbers,
I should have said, in the loop keep adding a character until the value is no
longer a number, then sort numeric by the last value.
Bob S
> On Oct 23, 2018, at 14:14 , Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
> wrote:
>
> This of course cannot be a numeric sort. I would create a loop and start with
>
As Craig said, your rules are not consistent to standards:
You sort *after* the first period numeric with the exception
that leading zeros are "valid".
That's why the replace in the following function is needed.
This now yields exactly your custom sort order:
function gregSort s
set itemdel
I am missing the rules of the game.
But in any event I agree that the only way to sort a mixed bag of numbers,
punctuation and alpha chars is to pre-parse and sort repeatedly by items, or
some other, er, sort of chunk.
But I do not see the "hierarchy" among spaces, periods, decimal numbers,
etc.
Okay I misunderstood. So were it not for the multiple periods in a single
value, you could have sorted numeric by word 1 of each, then resorted
alphabetically by word 2 of each. The wrench in the works is the double
periods. For this you can write a function that builds a string for a value
Come to think of it no. I didn't notice the items further down in the list with
multiple periods. Your problems is very basic: You really have alpha-numeric
data, which you are trying to sort numerically. It's a contradiction in terms.
Looking at the nature of your data, and assuming your data
Hmm, interesting. I'll noodle on that. I also see my email is pretty unreadable
without any formatting. Here is a slightly better data example.
Alpha sort
187
187.01
187.02
187.1
187.22
187.234
187.3
187.33
187.456
10187
18700
187 (a)
187 (a)(1)
187 (b)
187 (b)(1)
187.1.1
187.1.2
187.c
187a
187c
sort lines numeric by word 1 of each
> On Oct 23, 2018, at 12:22 , Scott Seward via use-livecode
> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I need to sort the result set of a search. But the common sort mechanisms I’m
> familiar with won’t get me where I need. I’m sure this is a common problem
> and much better
I’d deconstruct the values into separate items and then sort by the last item,
then next to last, eventually getting to the first.
Kee Nethery
> On Oct 23, 2018, at 12:22 PM, Scott Seward via use-livecode
> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I need to sort the result set of a search. But the common sort
Hi,
I need to sort the result set of a search. But the common sort mechanisms I’m
familiar with won’t get me where I need. I’m sure this is a common problem and
much better developers then I know the name of it and how to execute it in
Livecode. Any help would be appreciated. Here is the
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