Hugh Senior wrote:
Have you needed to sort lists by a value list or synchronize different lists, but thought it not easily do-able in Rev? You may find the following tips useful.

In a field, type some lines where the first word is a random day of the week, then...

on mouseUp
  sort lines of fld 1 by valueList(word 1 of each)
end mouseUp

function valueList what
  put "Monday,Tuesday,Wednesday,Thursday,Friday,Saturday,Sunday" into tList
  return itemOffset(what,tList)
end valueList

I've been looking at this for two days and I can't wrap my head around it.

My understanding of the sort command is that I can tell it to sort by a particular chunk, and in which direction (ascending or descending), and by what form of data (numeric or date or text).

Indeed, the only examples in the docs are:

   sort field "Output"
   sort items of myInfo by word 2 of each -- sort by word 2 of the line
   sort lines of field thisField descending numeric by item x of each

I've never before seen a sort where the sort specifier is a literal value. :\

If I simplify the above to move the function result inline, it would look like:

  sort lines of fld 1 by "Monday"

What exactly does that do, and how does it do it?
And where did you learn how do that? I can't find anything in the docs like that.

TIA -

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 Richard Gaskin
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