Re: sort lines by length

2014-09-24 Thread Mark Wieder
Dave- Wednesday, September 24, 2014, 1:37:19 AM, you wrote: > I have no strong opinion on this. The response to your request > made some sense to me, as it would apply only to certain built-in > functions that can only return a numeric value. So there would be > some inconsistency, and also possi

Re: sort lines by length

2014-09-24 Thread Klaus major-k
Hi Dave, Am 23.09.2014 um 22:59 schrieb Dave Cragg : > On 23 Sep 2014, at 20:07, Klaus major-k wrote: > >> Hi Larry, >> >> Am 23.09.2014 um 20:53 schrieb >> : >> >>> Hello, >>> >>> this line doesn't work: >>> sort lines of field "myField" by length of each >>> >>> Can someone please tell

Re: sort lines by length

2014-09-24 Thread Dave Cragg
On 24 Sep 2014, at 04:21, Mark Wieder wrote: > Dave- > > Tuesday, September 23, 2014, 1:59:39 PM, you wrote: > >> sort lines of fld 1 numeric by length(each) > >> I think "numeric" is needed if the lengths can be over 9 >> characters. Otherwise it will do a text sort on the lengths. > > See

Re: sort lines by length

2014-09-24 Thread Dave Kilroy
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Re: sort lines by length

2014-09-23 Thread Mark Wieder
Dave- Tuesday, September 23, 2014, 1:59:39 PM, you wrote: > sort lines of fld 1 numeric by length(each) > I think "numeric" is needed if the lengths can be over 9 > characters. Otherwise it will do a text sort on the lengths. See bug^H^Henhancement request 9910. This has bugged me for some time

Re: sort lines by length

2014-09-23 Thread Geoff Canyon
On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 2:07 PM, Klaus major-k wrote: > this compiles and kinda works, but not as exspected :-/ > ... > sort lines of fld 1 by length(each) > You want: sort lines of fld 1 numeric by length(each) Otherwise a line with length 13 will sort before a line with length 4 ___

Re: sort lines by length

2014-09-23 Thread Dave Cragg
On 23 Sep 2014, at 20:07, Klaus major-k wrote: > Hi Larry, > > Am 23.09.2014 um 20:53 schrieb > : > >> Hello, >> >> this line doesn't work: >> sort lines of field "myField" by length of each >> >> Can someone please tell me the code for sorting a field by length of line? > > this compiles

Re: sort lines by length

2014-09-23 Thread Colin Holgate
If you look at the dictionary entry for length you’ll see that it’s a function. You say either: sort fld 1 by the length of each or: sort fld 1 by length(each) but not: sort fld 1 by length of each ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists

Re: sort lines by length

2014-09-23 Thread Klaus major-k
Hi Larry, Am 23.09.2014 um 20:53 schrieb : > Hello, > > this line doesn't work: > sort lines of field "myField" by length of each > > Can someone please tell me the code for sorting a field by length of line? this compiles and kinda works, but not as exspected :-/ ... sort lines of fld 1 by

sort lines by length

2014-09-23 Thread larry
Hello, this line doesn't work: sort lines of field "myField" by length of each Can someone please tell me the code for sorting a field by length of line? Thanks! ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subsc