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  3.     by baskerville.CS.Arizona.EDU (8.11.1/8.11.1) id h2CJoBg04037
  4.     for icon-group-addresses; Wed, 12 Mar 2003 12:50:11 -0700 (MST)
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  6. Date: 12 Mar 2003  16:41:41 GMT
  7. From: rjhare@ed.ac.uk
  8. Subject: Re: Sorting lists
  9. To: swampler@noao.edu
  10. cc: icon-group@cs.arizona.edu
  11. Errors-To: icon-group-errors@cs.arizona.edu
  12. Status: RO
  13.  
  14. > If you do have a list of lists of strings, you *can* use
  15. > sortf(X,i) instead of sort() to sort by the first element in
  16. > each of the sublists, so:
  17. > 
  18. >     b := sortf(a, 1)
  19. > 
  20. > would do what you want in the above example.
  21.  
  22. That's it! Thanks very much - the book is at home and I use the internal sort
  23. command so rarely that I simply couldn't remembe - thanks again!
  24.  
  25. Roger
  26.  
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