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From: gbc@cahaba.med.unc.edu (Geoff Crooks)
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Subject: Re: How do you sort within a field?
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Date: 4 May 90 19:30:39 GMT
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In article <3082@phred.UUCP> johnd@phred.UUCP (John Daynes) writes:
>Anyway, I have a card with a scrolling field on it.  The field has
>a long list of items in it that I would like to sort alphabetically.
>It appears that the SORT command just wants to sort CARDS by
>something in a field.  I just want to sort the contents of ONE FIELD.
>
>Any suggestions?

There is an XFCN called SortLines that will do just what you want...
It sorts the contents of a field ascending or decending by the first
character of each line of the field... it works well.. I used it in 
my VideoStak -  be glad to mail you a copy if you can't find it
elsewhere -  I think (if memory serves) it came as part of a collection
of XCMD/XFCNs (PD/SW) put out by Dartmouth.

Hope this helps.

Geoff.

* Geoff Crooks                "She told me to make myself comfortable    *
* Dept of Psychology           so I pulled down my pants and sat in the  *
* Univ. of No. Carolina        pudding..."  Emo Phillips                 *
* gbc@med.unc.edu                                                        *