I wanted a text sort. I see that LC resolves the length function as a number, the length of the line in question loaded into the local variable each. So a word with 10 chars is sorted before a word with 9 chars.
It is the loading of "each" that makes this correct, and sensible. Mark, you will agree if you think about it. It isn't a matter of LC being friendly, as I so glibly suggested. Sorting numeric fixes the misunderstanding. I see, more and more, that this is proper behavior for LC, given the strict syntax of the function. I'm OK with it. Craig -----Original Message----- From: Bob Sneidar <b...@twft.com> To: How to use LiveCode <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> Sent: Mon, Dec 12, 2011 1:58 pm Subject: Re: sort by length of line (Weird) It is doing just that, only it's doing a text sort of the numbers: 1 10 100 11 12 etc. He wants a NUMERIC sort of the numbers. Hence sort myVar numeric by the length of each Bob On Dec 12, 2011, at 11:56 AM, Mark Wieder wrote: > 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. _______________________________________________ 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
