Re: Using [sort] on fields with spaces

[Mike Lerley <mike@bfent.com>]

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OK, I can work with that. Thanks!
-mike

Frank Miedreich wrote:
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> >Scenario:  Let's say I have the following arbitrary database, named
> >"countries":
> >country,code
> >U.S.A.,1
> >Canada,2
> >United Kingdom,3
> >French New Guinea,4
> >
> >Code 1:
> >[tag each countries]
> >[loop-code]
> >[/tag]
> >
> >Output 1:
> >United Kingdom
> >U.S.A.
> >Canada
> >French New Guinea
> >(random order due to hashing)
> >
> >Code 2:
> >[tag each countries]
> >[sort countries:country]
> >[loop-code]
> >[/tag]
> >
> >Output 2:
> >Canada
> >French
> >Guinea
> >Kingdom
> >New
> >United
> >U.S.A.
> >
> >erm... is there something I'm missing?  Highly frustrating.  Thanks for
> >any insight...
> >-mike
> >
> 
> The code of a database should not contain any spaces. In your case you have
> a database with a code field named country with a single data field named
> code.
> Change the database to
> code, country
> 1,U.S.A
> 2,etc
> 
> and Code 2 to:
> [tag each countries]
> [sort countries:country]
> [loop-data countries country]
> [/tag]
> 
> Frank
> 
> --
> Frank Miedreich
> Max-Planck-Institut fuer psychologische Forschung
> 
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