Thanks: that looks remarkably simple.
I suppose the "trick" is knowing which word to look up in the Dictionary ;-)
Richmond.
On 8/8/17 1:29 am, Jerry Jensen via use-livecode wrote:
From the dictionary entry for “sort”:
If you don't specify a direction, the sort is ascending.
One of the following items:
• ascending -sorts in ascending order
• descending -sorts in descending order
On Aug 7, 2017, at 3:23 PM, Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode
<use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
I have a listField containing a number of words which I want to order so the
longest comes
first . . .
doing this:
sort lines of fld "myGuff" by length(each)
sorts the words, but the shortest one comes first…
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