On 2007-01-05, Erlend Hamberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Friday 05 January 2007 15:47, striker wrote:
> > I have a text file in the format:
> > 01/04/2007,field1,field2,field3
> > 01/03/2007,field1,field2,field3
> > 12/30/2006,field1,field2,field3
> > etc...
> >
> > I need to sort by date, but the new dates in 2007 are placed first in
> > the sort algorithm. How can I sort by the entire date in the format
> > above?
>
> :%sort n /\d\+\/\d\+/
To sort by the entire date, this needs to be a two-stage process.
First do an ordinary (not numeric) sort on the whole line:
:%sort
Then do a sort (numeric or ordinary) ignoring the month and day
fields, as Erlend suggested:
:%sort n /\d\+\/\d\+/
HTH,
Gary
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Gary Johnson | Agilent Technologies
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| Spokane, Washington, USA
