[REBOL] Re: Sorting Blocks

From: carl:cybercraft at: 29-Jan-2006 9:38

On Sunday, 29-January-2006 at 0:50:19 Alan Macleod wrote,

>How do you sort a block of blocks on an element other than the first?
>
>For example:
>
>db: [
>	["bob" "Smith" "12"]
>	["dan" "murphy" "25"]
>	["mike" "Coogan" "6"]
>	]
>
>How do I sort by last name or by age

Use SORT's COMPARE refinement.  ie...

sort/compare db func [a b][a/2 < b/2]

sort/compare db func [a b][(to-integer a/3) < to-integer b/3]

-- Carl Read.

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