Great minds think alike! That is the same return command I used! Switching to
capital L is a good idea, lower case l is hard to read.
And you are right, I was so caught up in how I wanted to do it, I didn't see
that yours should work, too, based on 'after'.
And you are right, this is a good place to consider the custom sorting value
function.
I think had a slightly different interpretation of the format of the lines, but
still... This looks the same.
Dar
On May 28, 2013, at 2:27 PM, Peter Haworth wrote:
> Yes,
> Geoff's is definitely simpler, hadn't seen it when I made my post. It did
> give me the opportunity to finally use the custom function feature of the
> sort command though!
>
> I like the shortcut!
>
> "After" is right in my code - I put the words into tKey, then the zeros,
> then the number. With your shortcut, the whole thing could be compressed
> down to:
>
> return word 1 to -2 of L & char -6 to -1 of ("000000" & word -1 of L) (I
> think!)
>
> Pete
> lcSQL Software <http://www.lcsql.com>
>
>
> On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 12:51 PM, Dar Scott <d...@swcp.com> wrote:
>
>> I think this and Geoff's are good! This one is more general if you can
>> come up with some sort of metric or sortvalue for each item/list. Geoff's
>> is simpler for this case. The speed difference will depend on the length
>> of the list.
>>
>> Shouldn't the zero be put 'before' instead of 'after' to force a numerical
>> sort?
>>
>> Also, there is a shortcut.
>>
>> put char -6 to -1 of ("000000" & tKey) into tKey
>>
>> Dar
>>
>>
>> On May 28, 2013, at 1:41 PM, Peter Haworth wrote:
>>
>>> The following worked for me (with apologies ofr any asterisks that may be
>>> inserted into the script by my email client)
>>>
>>> It assumes there won;t be any numbers > 6 digits.
>>>
>>> *on* mouseUp
>>>
>>> *sort* lines of field "Field" by reformatLine(each)
>>>
>>> *end* mouseUp
>>>
>>>
>>> *function* reformatLine l
>>>
>>> *local* tKey
>>>
>>> *put* word 1 to -2 of item 1 of l into tKey
>>>
>>> *repeat* 6-the length of word -1 of item 1 of l
>>>
>>> *put* zero after tKey
>>>
>>> *end* *repeat*
>>>
>>> *put* word -1 of item 1 of l after tKey
>>>
>>> *return* tKey
>>>
>>> *end* reformatLine
>>>
>>> Pete
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