Hi Andrew, AFAIR, you can pile the sort command one after the other, as:
sort lines of sReportText numeric by item 2 of each sort lines of sReportText by item 1 of each HTH. Thierry ------------------------------------------------ Thierry Douez - http://sunny-tdz.com Maker of sunnYperl - sunnYmidi - sunnYmage 2013/5/28 Andrew Kluthe <and...@ctech.me> > Hello Ya'll, > > I am trying to sort some tab delimited data by item 1 of each. Item 1 of > each is a name and a number. > > Kansas 1 > Kansas 3 > MO 3 > MO 8 > > > Anyhow, when I run the sort as > > sort lines of sReportText by item 1 of each > > I get it sorted pretty close, but entries with the same name and a > different number are not sorted numerically after being sorted > alphabetically. > > Are there any built in options or tricks I could use to get the desired > result without having to write a custom sort function for this seemingly > simple task? > > > > -- > Regards, > > Andrew Kluthe > and...@ctech.me > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode