Forums Scripts & Popups sorting vars

how would i go about sorting vars by their values
ex:

%var1 2
%var2 5
%var3 4
%var4 1
%var5 3

will sort out to

%var4 1
%var1 2
%var5 3
%var3 4
%var2 5

Sorting the variables is kinda obsolete, as sorting different variables on their value is a bit weird. There are ways to sort, but you would somehow need to store the different variable names as well. What I would suggest is open a sorted window, dump the values in it, they will be sorted, and extract the sorted list from there.

Perhaps if you describe what you intend to do here, we could suggest alternate ways...

Sortting variables is only 'obsolete' if you have no purpose for doing so..

dragonslayere; if you actually are wanting to sort the variable listing in the script editor (ALT+R), you can use something like;

alias sortvar {
var %i = $calc($var(*,0) + 1)
window -ehs @sort.hidden
clear @sort.hidden
while (%i) {
aline @sort.hidden $+($eval($var(*,%i),2),&,$var(*,%i))
dec %i
}
unsetall
var %o = 1
while ($line(@sort.hidden,0) >= %o) {
set -n $gettok($line(@sort.hidden,%o),-1,38) $gettok($line(@sort.hidden,%o),$+(1-,$calc($0 - 1)),38)
inc %o
}
window -c @sort.hidden
}

Simply, /sortvar.

Eamonn.

err i have no clue what u posted...

maybe this will be easier to do
sortying the values in vars

%var 1 3 2 4
to
%var 12 3 4

%var = $sorttok(%var,32,n)

/help $sorttok

Greets