I tried Craig’s approach, but with the correct syntax, not the condensed
example he gave. I put your example list into field 1, and had this script in a
button:
on mouseUp
put fld 1 into fld 2
sort fld 2 by word 1 of each & word 2 of each
end mouseUp
I then scrambled (manually) the lines of field 1. That consistently gives back
the list in the sorted order you showed.
Next I tried this script:
on mouseUp
repeat with a = 1 to 100
put item random(2) of "advanced,beginner" && random(100) into line a of
fld 1
end repeat
put fld 1 into fld 2
sort fld 2 by word 1 of each & word 2 of each
end mouseUp
Field 1 had a random list of advanced and beginner entries, with a level too,
and after clicking the button field 2 showed the list as sorted.
Now, it’s an alpha sort not a numeric sort, and Paul’s approach, which was the
same as Björnke’s, also fails in that way.
So, Craig’s suggestion was good, just not with the syntax expanded.
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