This did the trick in my quick test:
##
on mouseUp
put the text of field "OriginalList" into tText
sort lines of tText numeric by TrailingNumber(each)
sort lines of tText
put tText into field "SortedList"
end mouseUp
private function TrailingNumber pLine
local tNumber, tChar
repeat with tIndex = length(pLine) to 1 step -1
put char tIndex of pLine into tChar
if tChar is not an integer then exit repeat
put tChar before tNumber
end repeat
if tNumber is empty then put 0 into tNumber
return tNumber
end TrailingNumber
##
No idea how it performs on longer lists, though...
HTH,
Jan Schenkel
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--- On Thu, 7/1/10, FlexibleLearning <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: FlexibleLearning <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: Intelligent sorting: A bit of a poser
> To: [email protected]
> Date: Thursday, July 1, 2010, 6:46 AM
> Klaus, Colin...
>
> I should have been more clear! Looking for a generic
> solution to sorting
> arbitrary alphanumeric strings that have suffix numbers.
>
> For example...
>
> pic 10
> pic 2
> image1
> pic 1
> image10
> image2
>
> How do I sort them like this?
>
> image1
> image2
> image10
> pic 1
> pic 2
> pic 10
>
> /H
>
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