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 therefore often do not work.
Thanks again,
Larry
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Hibbert" <paulhibb...@mac.com>
To: "How to use LiveCode" <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>
Sent: Saturday, August 09, 2014 9:57 AM
Subject: Re: sorting
Larry,
If I understand right, just change the direction of the second sort to put
the beginners first, this worked for my test:
on mouseUp
sort lines of fld "sortField" by word 2 of each
sort lines of fld "sortField" descending by word 1 of each
end mouseUp
Paul
On 2014-08-09, at 4:56 AM, la...@significantplanet.org wrote:
Hello Alex,
OK, in my previous email I gave some hypothetical data.
In my app I actually have a field where the first word is either Advanced
or Beginner
The 2nd word is a number ranging from 2 to 25, showing how many items.
There are some other words after those, but I'm not concerned about them.
As lines are added to the field, they are in jumbled order.
What I want is this on the sort: (All the Beginners in numeric order,
followed by all the Advanced in numeric order)
Beginner 1
Beginner 2
Beginner 3 (etc.)
Advanced 1
Advanced 2
Advanced 3 (etc.)
Thanks,
Larry
----- Original Message ----- From: "Alex Tweedly" <a...@tweedly.net>
To: <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>
Sent: Saturday, August 09, 2014 3:51 AM
Subject: Re: sorting
Larry,
can you be more explicit about how it doesn't work ?
Actually, can you explain better what you want to do ? You said you want
to sort by the 2nd and then the 3rd word - but gave an example that
appeared to show sorting by 2nd and 1st - and not even have a 3rd word
in any line.
So how about a slightly less terse description, and an example showing
both "before" and "after" and hopefully we can get you to where you want
....
-- Alex.
On 09/08/2014 09:14, la...@significantplanet.org wrote:
Sorry, that doesn't work
----- Original Message ----- From: "Björnke von Gierke" <b...@mac.com>
To: "How to use LiveCode" <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>
Sent: Saturday, August 09, 2014 12:58 AM
Subject: Re: sorting
sort theList by word 2 of each
sort theList by word 1 of each
sort order is retained in-between commands, that's why it works.
On 09 Aug 2014, at 08:24, la...@significantplanet.org wrote:
I have a field I want to sort.
Each line has 4 words.
I want to sort by the first word (ascending) and then do a 2nd sort by
the 3rd word without changing the order of the first word.
Example:
apple box
apple pie
apple zoo
baby blue
baby rattle
baby zoo
etc.
TIA
Larry
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