[Discontinued ]Extension for Sort List with comparator

Extensions
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There is bug in this extension, as mentioned here

Please use the new buildin 'sort list' block instead.

This is a simple extension, and now only have one block to sort a list:

Download link:

cn.kevinkun.listutil.aix (8.8 KB)

How to use

  1. make a procedure with 2 parameters, and return a number (integer or float both ok)

Example:

  1. sort a list of number
    2022-05-13_103049

  2. sort a list of list according to 2nd item (a number) of sublist
    2022-05-13_103110

3, sort a list of list according to 1st item (a string) of sublist
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  1. sort a list of list according to lenth of 1st item
    2022-05-13_103059

if a decending list wanted, just change symbol of procedure's return value.

Credit

  1. "call function" is from @ewpatton;
  2. Extension build with Rush
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Great!.. Such a wounderful extension. No need of multiple blocks to sort the list in desired mode.. You made it in very simple mannar..
:heart:

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shuffle a list:
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Do you have a link to the source?
This is an important piece of code.

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Here :

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A couple more examples:

Sort List of Strings:

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"Filter" by contains:

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is there a way to exclude the list items that do not match ?

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Maybe I should add filer and map function later.

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I don't understand what are x and x2 in procedure and how it works...

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you can give them any name you want. they represent two items from the list.

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ok. and then result 1 means increase order and -1 decrease order...
i think it's ok. thanks

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10 posts were split to a new topic: How to sort a list of lists by date?

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