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Re: Sorting by sequence member`

• Posted by Tony Steward <tony.steward at gmail.com> Oct 10, 2004
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Thanks Kat but where do I find sorttok.


On Sun, 10 Oct 2004 00:46:47 -0500, Kat <gertie at visionsix.com> wrote:
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> On 10 Oct 2004, at 15:28, Tony Steward wrote:
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> >
> > How can I sort the following sequence by 2nd, or 3rd member, using
> > nat_sort preferably.
> >
> >
> > {{"tony","nsw","Australia"},{"George","qld","Australia"},{"Mary","ca","USA"}}
> >
> > ie: how do I sort by state or country
> 
> Use sorttok() or sortntok():
> 
> string = {"Fred,Astaire,45,Alberta,Canada",
>          "Lucy,Ball,56,Barre,North Dakota",
>          "Red,Skelton,34,London,England",
>          "Pierre,du Pont,12,Paris,France"}
> string = sorttok(string,3,',')
> string = {"Pierre,du Pont,12,Paris,France",
>          "Red,Skelton,34,London,England",
>          "Fred,Astaire,45,Alberta,Canada",
>          "Lucy,Ball,56,Barre,North Dakota"}
> 
> It's also sorts *inside levels of sort*, so you can sort by country and inside
> that sort
> by state/provence and inside that sort by name,, nesting up to the limit of
> how many
> fields there are, in one sorttok() call. You can mix up and down sorting in
> the levels.
> 
> Kat
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