Different Sort of Sort

[RossG]

I have lines in a field:

1 BHO
4 RLO
6 BHE

etc.

Is there a way to sort them on item 2?

[dunbarx]

Hi.

Yes.

But I do not see the items. If you had:

cat,dog
deer,ticks
night,day

And did this:

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sort thatList by item 2 of each

Would give you:

night,day
cat,dog
deer,ticks

Read up on the sort command in the dictionary.

Craig Newman

[Klaus]

If it HAS to be ITEMS:
...
set itemdel to SPACE
sort lines of fld X by item 2 of each
...
If NOT:
...
sort lines of fld X by WORD 2 of each
...

[RossG]

Klaus

I was thinking of a function from my FoxPro days:

char to ASCII

ASCII to char.

The only place I see ASCII mentioned in the
Dictionary is in reference to sorting (I think).

[richmond62]

Well I made a stack as per your recipe and put THIS in my button [I called my listField "ff"]:

on mouseUp
sort fld "ff" by char 2 of each
end mouseUp

and it sorted the items by the second letter.

The only potential snag is that it put those 3 items
in lines 4,5 and 6 of the field.

Of course IFF you are using Unicode characters things will get a bit more awkward.

[MaxV]

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sort field 1 by word 2 of each

It works, moreover you can do more complex sorting, but always start from right ( http://livecode.wikia.com/wiki/Sorting )