I'm with you, Mark, but the formal syntax is self consistent. It just is not as friendly as it might be.
It should have been a clue when I wrote two other lists, they worked fine. This list came from a small project I was working on, and we can all see now that, depending on the words, you might get a good sort without realizing that pure luck was involved. My two test lists were that lucky. But I understand that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, even a lot of a little knowledge. Craig -----Original Message----- From: Mark Wieder <mwie...@ahsoftware.net> To: use-livecode <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> Sent: Mon, Dec 12, 2011 9:59 am Subject: Re: sort by length of line (Weird) OK - that's just weird. I see what's going on, but what I'd expect is what (I think) Craig expects - that I'd get a list of the strings sorted by their character lengths. Is there *any* use case in which you'd want strings sorted by the alphabetic representations of their lengths? I can't think of any. To my mind, the "length" modifier should automatically force a numeric sort. _______________________________________________ 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
