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SORTING
PC-TYPE+ SORTING CAPABILITIES
· You may sort the entire file or any set of adjacent lines
· You may sort up to 8 fields simultaneously
· The fields may be any length and may overlap
· Each sort field may be defined to be sorted ascending or descending
· Each sort field may be defined to be case sensitive or insensitive
· You may sort so that the lines of your text are rearranged based
on the result of your sort or
· You may sort the information within a column of data only.
All of these options are available to you with a few simple
keystrokes. This file will show you how to use them all.
Press the PgDn Key
SORTING (continued)
>Smith1 Normally when you sort, you block the area of interest
Jones2 using the CtrlB keys. (You may use AltL marking
Adams3 also.) We will do a simple column sort here to
Brown4 display the simplest sort using the entire field
aaron5 defined. The default sort is case sensitive, that
Duffy6 is, a distinction is made between upper and lower case
Green7< characters, and is ascending.
^
Move the cursor to the right of the '>' and press CtrlB. Next move
the cursor to the left of the '<' and press CtrlB. Now press F7 and
select F6, "Sort in Column". Forget the field marker for now - just
press F10 (or the Enter key). As you can see, the data was sorted
only in the marked column. "aaron" is at the bottom since this was a
case sensitive sort and "a" comes after "S" in the standard character
order. Repeat the process but this time place a small "a" in the
field when it appears above the "^" and press Enter twice.
Press the PgDn Key
SORTING (continued)
In the second sort you performed above, you told PC-TYPE+ to sort in
ascending order on the numerical data in the column in which you
placed the "a". In essence, you defined a "sort field" with that "a".
There are four letters you may use to define the extent of each field
of the sort:
"a" -- sort this field ascending and case insensitive
"A" -- sort this field ascending and case sensitive
"d" -- sort this field descending and case insensitive
"D" -- sort this field descending and case sensitive
for example, if you wanted to sort the column under the 'x's as
descending and case sensitive, you would place aaaaxxxxxbbbbb
'D's in the field as shown to the right. DDDDD
Press the PgDn Key
SORTING (continued)
>Smith 98044a This time we will move entire lines based
Jones 98090b on the result of the sort. Obviously, the
Adams 98090c text you are reading will become messed up
Peterson 98044d after the sort since we will not be doing a
winbigler 98052e column sort. We will first sort on the zip
adams 98090f code in descending order, and then on the
winbigler 98052g names as case insensitive and ascending.
winbigler 98077h Block the area as before to the right and
jones 98077i< left of the ">" and "<" characters and press
aaaaaaaaa ddddd F7 and then F5 ("Sort Rows"). Now place the
"d"s in the field as shown and press Enter. Then place the "a"s in
the field as shown and press Enter. You have just defined fields one
and two. Now press Enter again. As you see, the entire line was
moved, and the zip codes are in descending order and the names in
ascending order when the zip codes are identical. See if you can
restore the original order.
Press the PgDn Key
SORTING (continued)
It is unlikely you will ever want to use more than 4 sort fields, and
most of the time you will only want to use one. But as you saw above,
it is very easy to define what you want to sort and how you want to
sort it.
If you do not mark a field but merely press F10 (or Enter), then
PC-TYPE+ assumes the sort is case sensitive, ascending, and applies to
the entire width of the blocked area.
If you begin a sort and decide you really don't want to sort it after
all, what else? Press the Esc key!
Press F4 to Return to the HELP Menu