On Fri 5-Jan-07 1:04pm -0600, Gary Johnson wrote:
> 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\+/
That would work if the sort were stable. It isn't in native
Windows. The following will fail to sort with earliest date
last:
:%sort!
:%sort! n /\d\+\/\d\+/
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Best regards,
Bill
