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