Re: Sort list alphabetically- ignoring first character if it is a space

2023-02-20 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
Sort by word 1 to -1 of each Sent from my iPhone > On Feb 20, 2023, at 14:12, Mark Wieder via use-livecode > wrote: > > On 2/20/23 13:29, Niggemann, Bernd via use-livecode wrote: > > ...or to make ChatGPT happy: > > sort tData ascending by word 1 to -1 of each # ignoring spaces > > > > -

Re: Sort list alphabetically- ignoring first character if it is a space

2023-02-20 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
David V Glasgow wrote: > I am trying to alphabetically sort a list of unique strings, some of > which have a leading space character. I need these to sort as if the > second character is the first character rather than all space prefixed > strings being bunched together. Would using the word de

Re: Sort list alphabetically- ignoring first character if it is a space

2023-02-20 Thread Mark Wieder via use-livecode
On 2/20/23 13:29, Niggemann, Bernd via use-livecode wrote: ...or to make ChatGPT happy: sort tData ascending by word 1 to -1 of each # ignoring spaces -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.co

Re: Sort list alphabetically- ignoring first character if it is a space

2023-02-20 Thread Niggemann, Bernd via use-livecode
> David V Glasgow wrote: > I am trying to alphabetically sort a list of unique strings, some of which > have > a leading space character. I need these to sort as if the second character > is > the first character rather than all space prefixed strings being bunched > together. Would sort t

Sort list alphabetically- ignoring first character if it is a space

2023-02-20 Thread David V Glasgow via use-livecode
I am trying to alphabetically sort a list of unique strings, some of which have a leading space character. I need these to sort as if the second character is the first character rather than all space prefixed strings being bunched together. I just had a hilarious conversation with ChatGPT on t