On 5/28/13 2:09 PM, Andrew Kluthe wrote:
That would handle it for the most part, jaque, but some of the data has
multiple words in the first item.
Here is a real sample of the most intricate of the data I would be sorting
in that first item.
MA West Creek 14
This would be a string to designate a field code we use. the first two are
an abbreviated version of the county the farm is located in, the second is
the common name of the farm and the last is a code for the specific chunk
of land we are talking about.
Sorting by words would work if the second piece of data in that string
wasn't multiple words sometimes and I had some way to know how many words
were in that item.
I am thinking the string is just too variable to sort it down in that way
without replacing spaces with another character momentarily.
Maybe:
sort lines of fld 1 numeric by last word of item 1 of each
sort lines of fld 1
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Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com
HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com
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