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From: dlugose@uncecs.edu (Dan Dlugose)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: Sorting by multiple fields
Message-ID: <1990Sep3.140709.16158@uncecs.edu>
Date: 3 Sep 90 14:07:09 GMT
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Organization: UNC Educational Computing Service
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In article <41691@sequent.UUCP> johnv@eng2.UUCP (John VanZandt) writes:
>I want to sort a stack by multiple fields, with a major and several minor
>sort fields.  How can this be done?

The simplest sort method would be consecutive sort commands in the
reverse order of importance.  For example, if you had a stack of
student grades in the range A..F, class 1..5 , and you wanted the
main division to be grades, first all A's, within that sorted by
class 1..5, within that sorted by last name, this would work:

sort by field "last name"
sort by field "class"
sort by field "grade"

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Dan Dlugose
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