Hi Paul,
After trying MANY suggestions and my own trial and ERRORS, you finally
provided me with a solution that actually works.
I very much appreciate that you actually tested it.
I have the feeling that many times in this list well-meaning people post
solutions that they have not tested and
You're more than welcome.
I often see the problems posted here as challenges, some I have no chance with
(they are way over my head), some I learn from other's answers, some I get
totally wrong. Occasionally I see what I think may be a solution, but I usually
have to do a test first to be sure
I tried Craig’s approach, but with the correct syntax, not the condensed
example he gave. I put your example list into field 1, and had this script in a
button:
on mouseUp
put fld 1 into fld 2
sort fld 2 by word 1 of each word 2 of each
end mouseUp
I then scrambled (manually) the lines
Sorry, I did miss the numeric sort, it worked with a short example, but using
Colin's test script, this also works:
on mouseUp
sort lines of fld sortField numeric by word 2 of each
sort lines of fld sortField descending by word 1 of each
end mouseUp
Paul
On 2014-08-09, at 9:51 AM, Colin
