On 2015-12-09 12:41, j...@souslelogo.com wrote:
One more remark on this topic : it's surprising that words
can't be sorted, when the following actually works :
get "95 1 3" & return & "95 2 1" & return & "125 1 2"
sort lines of it ascending numeric by word 3 of each
In that case, words are used as a sorting parameter; so why
not use them also for sorting words in a variable ?
What's the logic behind ?
Words can be separated by multiple spaces, so the question here is that
what would sorting the words of:
the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog
Give you?
If you want to sort by (single) space delimited things (i.e. not
'words', which are both quoted and separated by multiple spaces) you can
just change the item/line delimiter and use items/lines.
Basically the answer to your question is simply that:
a) It is not entirely obvious what 'sort the words of' should do.
b) The case of sorting a list of single space separated things is
already available by fiddling with delimiters and using item/line
chunks.
Warmest Regards,
Mark.
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