Paul. So if you had the following list of words:
Ant Bat Chicken Ash Arc Baton Abacus aardvark Ax Axle Apron Allspice Africa Amazing Club and ran the same line of code, you would get: Abacus aardvark Ax Africa Amazing Club Ant Bat Chicken Ash Arc Baton Axle Apron Allspice Is this what you meant, and intended? Craig > On Mar 30, 2022, at 4:26 PM, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > On 3/30/2022 4:13 PM, Craig Newman via use-livecode wrote: >> A way I have always used was developed back in the HC days. Assuming you >> have your list in the variable “yourList" >> >> sort lines of yourList by word 1 of each & word 2 of each & word 3 of each >> >> > > I used single letters as an example, but my text is tab delimited and each > cell is moderately long text. > > I think using "word 1 of each & word 2 of each & word 3 of each" or "item 1 > of each & item 2 of each & item 3 of each" concatenates all 3 "cells" > together and sort by that string of characters. I think this could result in > an invalid sort order of, for example, item 2 started with words found at the > end of some items 1's. > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 _______________________________________________ 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
