[PLUG] Sorting A Text File on Multiple Fields

John Jason Jordan johnxj at comcast.net
Thu Sep 1 19:58:27 UTC 2011


On Thu, 1 Sep 2011 10:52:08 -0700 (PDT)
Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> dijo:

>In my experience spreadsheets are the absolute worst tool to do this job.
>If you sort column 1 and forget to highlight all the others, only
>column 1 is sorted. When trying to sort on internal columns it gets
>even worse. This is one way folks using spreadsheets as databases
>screw up their data and make it totally useless and unrecoverable.

I agree. That's why I always use a database for a task like this.



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