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Re: how to do a proper alphabetical sort?
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Re: how to do a proper alphabetical sort?


  • Subject: Re: how to do a proper alphabetical sort?
  • From: "Mark J. Reed" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2007 19:38:56 -0500

Oh, and don't forget to restore the delimiters. :)  Here's a handler version:

on sortList(unsortedList)
   set oldDelimiters to AppleScript's text item delimiters
   set AppleScript's text item delimiters to (ASCII character 10)
   set sortedList to paragraphs of (do shell script "echo " & quoted
form of (unsortedList as string) & "| sort  -d -f")
   set AppleScript's text item delimiters to oldDelimiters
   return sortedList
end sortList

sortList({"apple", "Arthur", "Carl", "Betty", "candy", "dog"})


On 3/8/07, Mark J. Reed <email@hidden> wrote:
On 3/8/07, Patrik B. <email@hidden> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am looking for a library or method that does an alphabetical sort?

I'm sure there's a way to do it with "pure" AS, but you can use the
shell command "sort" to do it:

set unsortedList to { "apple", "Arthur", "Carl", "Betty", "candy", "dog" }
set old_delims to AppleScript's text item delimiters
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {ASCII character 10}
set sortedList to paragraphs of (do shell script "echo " & quoted form
of (unsortedList as string) & "| sort  -d -f")

That gives {"apple", "Arthur", "Betty", "candy", "Carl", "dog"} - not
exactly what you wanted since you specified uppercase before
lowercase, but perhaps good enough?

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Mark J. Reed <email@hidden>



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