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Title: Re: [amibroker] Re: How to sort lines in a file

Thanks guys,


I'll try this script!


I can just swap a column to get a sort for the first word/number. Its worth a try.


Thanks a lot!!!


herman



Friday, August 22, 2008, 6:42:05 PM, you wrote:


> Hi,


> I don't have AmiBroker on this computer. So, I can't test this out. 

> But, see if the following article will do what you need. It is doing 

> an alphabetical sort of the entire line, which means that the sort 

> will effectively be on the first column.


> The easiest approach would probably be to just embed the script 

> directly into your AFL wrapped in scripting tags as follows:


> EnableScript("_vbscript_");

> ... // Usual AFL code

> <%

> // script found at 

> http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/resources/qanda/feb05/he

> y0225.mspx


> ... // Usual AFL code


> Or, for code reuse, you could create a function in a separate AFL 

> file and #include it wherever needed. If neither of those work out, 

> you could instead have the _vbscript_ stored in a .vbs file and choose 

> to run it from AFL by calling out to wscript.


> Just in case you have trouble accessing the link provided, here is 

> the actual script. Change the hard coded data file path 

> (C:\Scripts\Computers.txt) to wherever your data file will be. If you 

> want to parameterize it to specify where the data file is or which 

> column to sort on, that should be do-able with some additional work.


> The behavior of the script is explained on the webpage at the link 

> provided.


> Mike



> Const adVarChar = 200

> Const MaxCharacters = 255

> Const ForReading = 1

> Const ForWriting = 2


> Set DataList = CreateObject("ADOR.Recordset")

> DataList.Fields.Append "ComputerName", adVarChar, MaxCharacters

> DataList.Open


> Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")

> Set objFile = objFSO.OpenTextFile("C:\Scripts\Computers.txt", 

> ForReading)


> Do Until objFile.AtEndOfStream

>     strLine = objFile.ReadLine

>     DataList.AddNew

>     DataList("ComputerName") = strLine

>     DataList.Update

> Loop


> objFile.Close


> DataList.Sort = "ComputerName"


> DataList.MoveFirst

> Do Until DataList.EOF

>     strText = strText & DataList.Fields.Item("ComputerName") & vbCrLf

>     DataList.MoveNext

> Loop


> Set objFile = objFSO.OpenTextFile("C:\Scripts\Computers.txt", 

> ForWriting)


> objFile.WriteLine strText

> objFile.Close





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