Richard Gaskin wrote:
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.
It's just a custom sort function. Rev evaluates the function before
sorting each line, so what it is actually sorting by is a number in this
case. "Each" evaluates to the first word of each line in this case,
which the function then re-evaluates as the position in the list of days
of the week. So when "each" is "monday" the sort number is 1. When it's
Tuesday, the sort number is 2, and so forth. I've posted some other
custom sorts before. Actually, I think I once posted a more generic
variation on Brett's script:
local lKeyData, lLineCounter
on sortBy keyField -- parallel sorting of linked flds
put fld keyField into lKeyData
put "data1,data2,data3" into dataFields -- fill in your fld names here
repeat with i = 1 to the number of items of dataFields
put 0 into lLineCounter
sort lines of fld (item i of dataFields) by key()
end repeat
end sortBy
function key
add 1 to lLineCounter
return line lLineCounter of lKeyData
end key
Same idea as the weekdays script, only this one is even more unweildy.
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Jacqueline Landman Gay | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com
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