Sorting

[Glenn Boyce]

I have been able to sucessfully sort a fld on a single item but am struggling with the syntax to get it to sort on two items. eg sort by type and then by size of that type where the type is in item 3 and size is in item 5 of each record line. this is what I have currently which does not work

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put fld "productSpecs" into tproductspecs
  sort lines of tproductspecs by item 3 of each
  sort lines of tproductspecs by item 5 of each
  put tproductspecs

[Klaus]

Hi Glen,

...
sort lines of tproductspecs by item 3 of each && item 5 of each
...
Go figure, this is even in the docs (Rev dictionary) under "sort"


Best

Klaus

[jmburnod]

I hoped to answer but Klaus is really very fast
I had begun a script creating subcategories to be separately sorted out
The syntax proposed by Klaus works fine but I do not see it in the dictionary of RevStudio 4.0.0 950
( Maeby that i progress too slowly in english)

P.S. Klaus, some children of the hospital play with Egg-Eier with pleasure.
I shall soon send you a "defininitive" version

All the best

Jean-Marc

[BvG]

I'm not so sure what klaus example does (and I can't see it in the dictionary either), but to make two sorts, the _least_ important sort has to come first. I suggest to invert the two sort lines (as shown below). That way the sort will be by item 3 first, and if several item 3 entries are equal, then item 5 will be used to sort these accordingly.

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put fld "productSpecs" into tproductspecs
  sort lines of tproductspecs by item 5 of each
  sort lines of tproductspecs by item 3 of each
  put tproductspecs

[Klaus]

Hi all,

I found this in the "sort" entry in the Rev Dictionary at the bottom, it is a user contribution!
It may take some time until it has been loaded.


Best

Klaus

P.S.
Great to hear the kids have fun with "Eier-Eggs"

[BvG]

To me they're not part of the documentation, they're user comments. And of course, as I am using my own docu stack, I don't get the chance to look at those, ever.

[Klaus]

Your bad

[dunbarx]

My comment, ahem.

An old HC trick.

Craig Newman