Re: sorting question

2014-09-30 Thread Bob Sneidar
Even better. DOH! Bob S On Sep 26, 2014, at 01:30 , Kay C Lan mailto:lan.kc.macm...@gmail.com>> wrote: sort items of tStore by word 1 of each ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscrib

Re: sorting question

2014-09-30 Thread Bob Sneidar
You could try sort items of field "myField” by char 2 to 3 of each text ascending but you would have to add a space before the first item. Bob S On Sep 24, 2014, at 01:19 , la...@significantplanet.org wrote: sort items of field "myField" text ascending ___

Re: re: sorting question

2014-09-26 Thread Kay C Lan
On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 4:40 PM, Dave Kilroy wrote: > For others wondering what the cause was, it was likely that the spaces in > each item were confusing things It is impossible that the spaces in front of each item could cause the sort NOT to change the list at all, which is what Larry reported

Re: re: sorting question

2014-09-24 Thread Dave Kilroy
dTest sort items of fld fldTest replace comma with ", " in fld fldTest end mouseUp - "Some are born coders, some achieve coding, and some have coding thrust upon them." - William Shakespeare & Hugh Senior -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution

re: sorting question

2014-09-24 Thread larry
Sorry, never mind! Larry ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode

sorting question

2014-09-24 Thread larry
Hello, I have the following items in a field: AD, AE, AI, AN, AR, AS, AT, DE, DI, DO, EE, EN, ER, ES, ET, IN, IO, IS, IT, NO, NU, OE, OP, OR, OS, OU, PA, PE, PI, ST, TO, UP, UR, UT, DA, EA, ED, ID, NA, NE, OD, OI, ON, PO, RE, SI, SO, TA, TE, TI, UN, US You can see that they are not sorted al