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From: myers@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Franklin Myers)
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Subject: In search of sort
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Date: 29 Nov 88 03:24:33 GMT
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I am currently working on a project which involves some minimal sorting.  I 
have created 'teams' that have three seperate attributes of information linked
to them.  They are record,  team points,  and team ranks.  I need to be able 
to do a nested sort by record,  then points,  then ranks.  The higher points
the better, and the lower the rank the better.  In other words,  one part
must be ascending and the other descending.  I can list the attributes in a
text field seperated by commas.  I am looking for an XCMD or an XFCN  that
is share ware or public domain.  Something along the lines of:
sort(textfieldname,a,a,d) where a and d mean ascending and descending
respectively.  If anyone knows of any stacks available I would appreciate
the help.

Thanks
Frank Myers
e-mail:myers@eniac.seas.upenn.edu