On Dec 30, 2004, at 5:06 PM, Bowerbird at aol dot com wrote:
i'm going to be submitting some feature-requests,
and wanted to know if i'm overlooking something,
so thought i'd run them by the listserve here first.
1. an "array.sortb" option, to sort the array by binary (ascii)
values...
Just to clarify your intent on this one, are you addressing numeric
data types as well as string data types? For example, with an array of
type integer, are you seeking a sort option that places 10 less than 9?
This seems inappropriate to me, since the data type of the array is
specified as numeric.
With regard to string arrays, isn't the current array sort method
already ascii except that case is ignored? Perhaps case sensitivity is
the option you would request in this case.
I'm in favor of 2, 3, and 4, but I'm not sure I understand 1. However,
an array descending sort option would be useful.
Jack
2. a variation on the "split" command to slam the results into a
listbox.
3. a variation on the "split" command with _multiple_delimiters_.
4. a variation on the multi-delimiter "split" to slam the results into
a multi-column listbox. an example of this is a text-file split on
[endofline] for the rows of the listbox, and [space] for the columns.
each text-line would be a row, with each word in its own column.
another example is [endofline] for rows and [comma] for columns,
to slam a comma-delimited spreadsheet-file into a listbox.
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