Timothy Miller wrote:
I just did quite a bit of haphazard troubleshooting. I isolated the
problem. The short dates are all preceded by a spacebar character. If I
remove the spacebar characters, the sort works correctly. This is easily
reproduced. It doesn't seem to matter whether items, lines or words are
being sorted.
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This seems like a flaw in the way Rev interprets certain dates, under
certain circumstances.
Comments?
It's correct behavior, based on the way that Rev calculates variable
types automatically. Dates are composed of numbers and a date delimiter
(usually "/" in the US). When the sort command sees a list of dates that
are well formatted, it sorts them as expected. But if there is a leading
space, the engine interprets it as an ascii string instead -- since
there are not suppoed to be spaces in dates -- and you get an
alpha-numeric sort.
If there is a bug at all, it is in the fact that Rev returns "true" if
you ask it whether " 1/1/11" is a date. So it is smart about "is a
date" but doesn't apply the same filtering to the sort routine. I'm not
sure I'd exactly call this a bug as much as an inconsistency.
You could fix your sort command this way:
sort lines of cd fld "shedule.2" datetime by word 1 of item 2 of each
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Jacqueline Landman Gay | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com
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