On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 4:40 PM, Dave Kilroy <d...@applicationinsight.com> wrote: > For others wondering what the cause was, it was likely that the spaces in > each item were confusing things
It is impossible that the spaces in front of each item could cause the sort NOT to change the list at all, which is what Larry reported. In the message box: put " ID, NA, OD, OA, FE" into tStore sort items of tStore put tStore into msg The space character is just another character and LC will sort it correctly. Of the list given, only the first item may not have had a space in front of it, so this may have ended up in the wrong place but the rest should have sorted correctly. Whilst removing and replacing spaces is one option to correct this, it may not be suitable in every situation, especially if the existence or lack of a space has significance - i.e. if you have a list of file names and you are specifically looking for those names that have a space as a prefix or a suffix. put "ID, NA , OD,OA, FE" into tStore sort items of tStore put tStore into msg Will correctly sort the file names placing all those with a prefix space at the beginning and preserving all suffix spaces. If prefix and suffix spaces are irrelevant then you can save yourself the hassle of standardising your data by removing and replacing the spaces by simply specifying that you want to sort by word: put "ID, NA , OD,OA, FE" into tStore sort items of tStore by word 1 of each put tStore into msg _______________________________________________ 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