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AW: st: minor complaint


From   "Martin Weiss" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   AW: st: minor complaint
Date   Sun, 18 Jul 2010 22:39:43 +0200

<> 

" learn something new every day."



Me too. BTW, if you want the help for Tirthankar`s -numlist- command, you have to type -h nlist-.



HTH
Martin

-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Im Auftrag von Jeph Herrin
Gesendet: Sonntag, 18. Juli 2010 22:34
An: [email protected]
Betreff: Re: st: minor complaint

That's it - learn something new every day.

thanks,
Jeph


On 7/18/2010 2:49 PM, Tirthankar Chakravarty wrote:
> Maybe you can use numlists for this task?
>
> *********************************
>   local mylist 0.5 2.5 12 9 7 2 23 32
>   numlist "`mylist'", sort
>   di "`r(numlist)'"
> *********************************
>
>
> 2010/7/19 Jeph Herrin<[email protected]>:
>> Is there an obvious reason why the list directives
>> for locals include a -sort- for text but not a -sort-
>> for numbers?
>>
>>   local mylist 0.5 2.5 12
>>   local mylist : list sort mylist
>>   macro list _mylist
>>
>> Many tasks involve sorting lists, it would be a lot
>> easier if I did not always need to write a bubble sort.
>>
>> Or is there another way to easily sort a numeric list
>> stored in macro?
>>
>> cheers,
>> Jeph
>>
>>
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