Re: Sort a List with Integers & Letters
Re: Sort a List with Integers & Letters
- Subject: Re: Sort a List with Integers & Letters
- From: Steven Valenti <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2007 11:05:56 -0400
I'd like to work this out but I don't know much shell scripting. My
actual code needs to sort a list of a list of records written to a
database every time a new item is added.
The list will look more like this with a lot more record properties...
set theList to {{ModelNumber:"1610G", ModelName:"Gold Plate"},
{ModelNumber:"121ZB", ModelName:"Zip Guard"}, {ModelNumber:"114",
ModelName:"White Matte"}} & ¬
{{ModelNumber:"13", ModelName:"Sterling Silver"},
{ModelNumber:"21124", ModelName:"Blueberry"}, {ModelNumber:"121FB",
ModelName:"Flat Bottom"}}
I want to sort the list by the ModelNumber. Is there a way to sort this
with a shell script. Sorry for not giving all the details from the
start. I was going to work out the record part if I knew a way with a
list.
Thanks,
Steven
Does this help?
set theList to {"1610G", "121ZB", "114", "13", "21124", "121FB",
"250G", "240.25", "1610", "15", "240 25", "240"}
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {ASCII character 10}
set theList to theList as Unicode text
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {""}
set sortList to paragraphs of (do shell script "echo '" & theList & "'
| sort -n -")
--> {"13", "15", "114", "121FB", "121ZB", "240", "240 25", "240.25",
"250G", "1610", "1610G", "21124"}
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