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Re: How do we sort a list?
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Re: How do we sort a list?


  • Subject: Re: How do we sort a list?
  • From: "Marc K. Myers" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 18:45:08 -0400
  • Organization: [very little]

> From: email@hidden
> Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 15:35:51 EDT
> Subject: How do we sort a list?
> To: email@hidden
>
> I have a FaceSpan app with a text window that contains a return-deliminated
> list of file names. New file names are added to the list in the course of
> using the application. I would like the option of selecting all the text in
> the list, resorting the items by name (alphabetical order), and then
> returning the list to the text box, again with a return between each item
> (this puts the file names on top of each other in the text box). I think this
> topic may have been addressed before, but does anyone know how to sort a list
> of text items alphabetically?
> Many thanks in advance,
> Garry Simon

Akua Sweets provides a command, "order list", which does a great job of
sorting AppleScript lists and text where lines need to be sorted.

Marc K. Myers <email@hidden>
http://AppleScriptsToGo.com
4020 W.220th St.
Fairview Park, OH 44126
(440) 331-1074

[10/24/01 6:44:33 PM]


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