From: Doug Lewan <dougl@shubertticketing.com>
To: Loris Bennett <loris.bennett@fu-berlin.de>,
"help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org" <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: RE: Sorting lines by length
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2014 13:48:51 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <155DEC68569B714B86C2C7075F5EDA9892B1F74F@DAKIYA1.pegasus.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k353zptq.fsf@hornfels.zedat.fu-berlin.de>
The code for (sort-lines) looks simple enough. Look at the definition of (sort-subr) (the last line of the definition of (sort-lines) in emacs 24.3). You could use something like the following for a predicate:
(defun compare-lengths (left right)
"Return non-nil if the string LEFT is shorter than the RIGHT."
(< (length left) (length right)))
,Doug
Douglas Lewan
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+dougl=shubertticketing.com@gnu.org
> [mailto:help-gnu-emacs-bounces+dougl=shubertticketing.com@gnu.org] On
> Behalf Of Loris Bennett
> Sent: Tuesday, 2014 September 16 08:57
> To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> Subject: Sorting lines by length
>
> Hi,
>
> Is there a canonical way of sorting lines by length, longest first?
>
> I have a file with which might look like this:
>
> 7-Jan-2013 node025 node061
> 14-Jan-2013 node025 node034 node061
> 21-Jan-2013 node025 node034 node050 node061
> 28-Jan-2013 node025 node034 node061
> 4-Feb-2013 node025 node034 node061
> 11-Feb-2013 node025 node034 node061
> 18-Feb-2013 node034
> 25-Feb-2013 node034
> 11-Mar-2013 node025
>
> I actually just need the longest line first. For the example above
> this
> is quite easy to see, but in the real file, there are around 100 lines
> and the longest might have around 1000 characters.
>
> My use case is reading the data into an R data frame. The number of
> columns in the resulting data frame seems to be determined by the
> number
> of items in the first line.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Loris
>
> --
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-09-16 13:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-09-16 12:56 Sorting lines by length Loris Bennett
2014-09-16 13:48 ` Doug Lewan [this message]
2014-09-16 13:56 ` Michael Heerdegen
2014-09-17 2:14 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2014-09-17 2:53 ` Drew Adams
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