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Re: Why is sorting tables limited?
Author: André Radke Posted: 5/3/1999; 11:16:48 AM Topic: Why is sorting tables limited? Msg #: 5561 (In response to 5560) Prev/Next: 5560 / 5562
The reason I prefer to store a real time value and not a heirarchical string representation of the date is that I need to do date math later on and don't want to incur the overhead of a lot of string to date conversions.You could coerce the return value of clock.now () to a number, and coerce it back to a date:
local (adritem = @adrtable^.[number (clock.now ())]); adritem^ = "This is a test"; msg (date (nameof (adritem^)));I don't know of a way to switch between ascending and descending order.
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- Re: Why is sorting tables limited?, erik, 5/3/1999; 12:15:52 PM
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