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are there any way to sort the content of a list in alphabetic order?

this is what I got so far:



and then I got the text file loaded to a .asp file



what i now want is to sort the content of the 'games.txt'
im not forced to use a .txt file, but I need to be able to load it in a .asp file

anyone got any ideas of how you can do this?

Use /filter. It will allow you to easily sort a text file.

/filter -ffcut 1 32 textfile.txt textfile.txt

I don't know if the format of a .asp file would prevent this from being able to be used directly, but if it's the same as a text file, or if you can use a text file instead, then I would recommend using /filter



Note: I haven't used /filter much, so this is based upon what I have read in the help file.

Since the OP was asking about an alphabetic sort, I have to wonder about the inclusion of the u switch, which, from the help file, is used for a numeric sort.
Also, based on the code the OP presented, it looks like each game is written to a different line in the text file, making the t switch irrelevant, since the sort would be on the full game name, not just the first word of the name.

As I said in my post, I haven't used /filter much, so if I'm mistaken, I would appreciate clarification.

thanks, everything works fine now

I put "u" because it works with alpha-numeric text. A game can easily start with numbers instead of letters.

As for the "t", I tried without and it didn't want to work. I rarely use /filter either, so I'm probably doing something wrong.

OK..the help file, as I said, states that that u switch is for a numeric sort...that probably should be updated to read alpha-numeric.

Well, both are alpha-numeric. It's a matter of whether it looks at the full number to sort or just the first digit.

Example:


/filter -ffct test.txt test.txt

Result:


/filter -ffcut test.txt test.txt

Result:


Notice that without -u, it will sort per character (121 is before 40 because 1 is before 4). With the -u, the sort will sort based on the actual number (40 is before 121).

I do agree that a better explanation in the help file would be good.

I tried to make the script a bit more advanced, but ran into some problem.

im linkin the textfile where I save all the added lines into a webpage, and filtering it with
and it worked great, but then I tried to add links and simple html code to it

the problem is the filtering starts to filter the link in that scentence, not the text.

and the code im adding into the filtered textdocument are


so now I wonder if there are some way to start the filtering at the third word ( $3- ), or some other way around the problem

The 1 in the filter command you showed is the word number. Change it to 3 if you want to do the 3rd space-delimited item (i.e. word).