Hi Craig, sort lines of myList by length(each) sort lines of myList by the length of each sort lines of myList by number of chars of each
"Each" is simply the element that's currently being sorted, as if you put a repeat loop into one line of syntax. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer KvK: 50277553 Become our partner in sales http://qery.us/1bq Start selling Color Converter today. 20% commission! On 12 dec 2011, at 05:04, dunb...@aol.com wrote: > Sorry, should have made a new thread. > > I can do this the long way, but is there a clever sortkey that will sort > lines by the length of those lines? > > In other words, if I have a variable myVar with: > > aaaaaaa > xxx > bbbb > > I want to write something like: > > sort myVar by the length of each > > to yield: > > xxx > bbbb > aaaaaaa > > Thanks, > > Craig Newman _______________________________________________ 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
