Perfect. Thanks very much (and thanks to Jacque, of course) for a great solution. It works exactly as advertised and the basic idea can be adapted in many ways. Thanks.
... Ron ______________________________________________ *** From: Buster ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) *** Dated: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 21:53:26 +0200 Hi, This is a similar problem as in the "Silly sort question" thread Adapt Jacques' excellent solution like in: on mouseUp ### adapt to taste ### sortbydate(item xx of each) ### numeric ascending or descending sort lines of fld 1 numeric by sortbydate(each) end mouseUp function sortbydate pDate replace word 1 of pDate with word 1 of pDate && "1," in pDate convert pDate to seconds return pDate end sortbydate Greetings, Wouer On 19 Oct 2005, at 20:04, Ron Noice wrote: > I have a field containing several items including one for month/ > year pairs such as: > Oct 2005 > Apr 2005 > Feb 2004 > Jan 2006 > Apr 2005 > Aug 2005 > > Is there any clever way to get these lines sorted chronologically? > What I've been doing so far is generating a real date from them: > Oct 1, 2005 > Apr 1, 2005 > etc. > in a hidden item and sorting that. > This works but I'm betting there's a way to do a custom sort > thingee that works directly from the original values. But so far > I've come up with nada. Any clever ideas? > > ... Ron > > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution > _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
