sort lines in reverse order

[Georg Portenkirchner]

I have a list that I want to sort in reverse order. So that 

Bob

Alex

Jack

Andy

becomes

Andy

Jack

Alex

Bob

How can I do this? Thanks in advance.

[Donald Goyette]

You can do it with commands from the Text menu: first add line numbers, then sort lines with "numbers match by value" and "reverse sort" checked, then finally remove the line numbers.

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[Rich Siegel]

On 11/10/17 at 3:30 AM, portenk...@gmail.com (Georg

Portenkirchner) wrote:

>I have a list that I want to sort in reverse order. So that
>Bob
>Alex
>Jack
>Andy
>
>becomes
>
>Andy
>Jack
>Alex
>Bob

The attached Perl one-liner will do it. Place it in your Text
Filters (Application Support/BBEdit/Text Filters/) and run it
from the "Apply Text Filter" command on the Text menu.

In case the attachment doesn't come through, the entire body of
the script is:

#!/usr/bin/env perl

print reverse <>;

Enjoy,

R.
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[Georg Portenkirchner]

Hi Donald,

I should have thought of that.

Thanks for the help and have a nice weekend

Georg

[Georg Portenkirchner]

Thanks Rich, this solution is even better than Donald's idea.

Have a nice weekend!

And thanks a lot for a great product. I am using BBEdit since 1994 for all my texts, lists, ideas etc.

It is the first program I install when getting a new Mac.

[Christopher Stone]

On 11/10/2017, at 02:30, Georg Portenkirchner <portenk...@gmail.com> wrote:

I have a list that I want to sort in reverse order.

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Hey Georg,

Rich has provided an elegant Perl filter.

#!/usr/bin/env perl

print reverse <>;

Just for fun here's how you can do it with AppleScript:

------------------------------------------------------------------------------

# Auth: Christopher Stone

# dCre: 2017/11/10 20:30

# dMod: 2017/11/10 20:39 

# Appl: BBEdit

# Task: Reverse Lines of Selection - or whole document if there is NO selection.

# Libs: None

# Osax: None

# Tags: @Applescript, @Script, @BBEdit, @Reverse, @Lines, @Selection, @Document

------------------------------------------------------------------------------

tell application "BBEdit"

    

    set theTarget to selection

    

    if length of theTarget = 0 then set theTarget to front text window

    

    set theLines to contents of lines of text of theTarget

    

    if theLines ≠ {} then

        set AppleScript's text item delimiters to linefeed

        set theLines to ((reverse of theLines) & "") as text

    end if

    

    set contents of theTarget to theLines

    

end tell

------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Best Regards,

Chris