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Re: Sorting lines by length
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Michael Heerdegen |
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Re: Sorting lines by length |
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Tue, 16 Sep 2014 15:56:36 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4.50 (gnu/linux) |
"Loris Bennett" <loris.bennett@fu-berlin.de> writes:
> Is there a canonical way of sorting lines by length, longest first?
`sort-subr' probably. Use it like
(sort-subr t #'forward-line #'end-of-line nil nil
(lambda (l1 l2)
(apply #'< (mapcar (lambda (range) (- (cdr range) (car range)))
(list l1 l2)))))
You can even modify the lambda to do something more sophisticated like
counting words.
Michael.