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Re: st: minor complaint
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Jeph Herrin <[email protected]>
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Re: st: minor complaint
Date
Sun, 18 Jul 2010 16:33:40 -0400
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?
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local mylist 0.5 2.5 12 9 7 2 23 32
numlist "`mylist'", sort
di "`r(numlist)'"
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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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