I figured it out, and it's a funny little issue! It is doing the sort correctly, but is evaluating the length of the words in an alphabetic way. The 10 letter words are alphabetically shorter than the 9 letter words, because "10" comes before "9".
You can solve it like this: sort fld 2 numeric by the number of chars of each _______________________________________________ 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
