Re: how to sort a list
Re: how to sort a list
- Subject: Re: how to sort a list
- From: eric m katerman <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 16:23:48 -0500
I'm not sure if this works in all cases (whatever that means), but it
does for the one you describe:
set the_list to {"c", "b", "e", "a", "d"}
set old_delims to AppleScript's text item delimiters
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {"
"}
set list_string to (the_list as string)
do shell script "echo \"" & list_string & "\" >
/Users/eric/data/tmp.dat"
do shell script "sort /Users/eric/data/tmp.dat >
/Users/eric/data/tmp2.dat"
set new_string to (do shell script "cat /Users/eric/data/tmp2.dat")
set new_list to (words of new_string)
ek
On May 13, 2004, at 3:00 PM, Andre Vink wrote:
Hi list,
how to sort a list?
{ "c", "b", "e", "a", "d" }
to
{ "a", "b", "c", "d", "e" }
andre
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