Forums Scripts & Popups Alphabetizing large list

Hello

I have a list that can be 40 - 250 items long. Its the room list of the category. I save it in a hash table. I wrote an alias that will sort the rooms by user count, but now I want to sort them alphabetically.

I am looking into different ways of doing this. I am not opposed to sending info to a text file to sort.

I thought I could seperate each name by a comma and use $sorttok but 150+ tokens in one string? Doesnt sound like a good idea to me.

I'm looking for ideas on the best way to alphabetize this list.

$hget(list,0).item gives me the total number of items to alphabetize.

$hget(list,1).item would give me the first name in the list.


So how would you alphabetize it? Thank You!

You could dump the items into a custom window, and sort them with /filter -ct 1 32 @win @win on them, where @win is your custom window.

If the purpose is to fill a nicklist in a @window, then you could just use the -S switch of the /window command.

Oh Sorry. Once Alphabetized rooms will be read from the hash table and put in a dialog list.

I suggest using filter, too (The numerical-sort-part could also benefit from using filter).
Add the data to a hidden window, sort it there, then filter it directly to your dialog ID (/filter -o).

As mentioned, a dialog list can be sorted automatically with the "sort" option. Beyond that, /filter is the best way to sort a hash table.

I included "sort" in my list properties but it did nothing.

How does this work? I've never used sort in a dialog list.

It should sort alphabetically anything that is put into a list with the sort property on it.



You'll note that the text is sorted automatically in the list.