Reverse order of lines

[Ted Stresen-Reuter]

Hi,

I know this can be done but am not finding the solution.

Given:

Lingo (Macromedia Director)
AppleScript
HyperTalk
HTML
JavaScript
Perl
SQL
Bash
HTTP
PHP
CSS
Visual Basic
ASP (Classic)
XML
XSLT
jQuery
Fusebox for PHP
WordPress
Laravel
React
AlpineJS

I'd like to end up with a list with the items in the reverse order, so, along the lines of:

AlpineJS

React

Laravel

WordPress

Fusebox for PHP

etc.

Note that the sort criteria is the order the lines appear in in the input. Can't BBEdit do this?

Thanks in advance.

Ted Stresen-Reuter

[TJ Luoma]

On Mon, Mar 8, 2021 at 12:15 PM Ted Stresen-Reuter <tedmas...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I'd like to end up with a list with the items in the reverse order, so, along the lines of:

I don't know if there's a way to do this directly in BBEdit but you can do this via: 

» Text » Run Unix Command 

and enter `tail -r`

Screenshot:

https://cln.sh/fL4uMk

HTH

Tj

[jj]

Hi Ted, 

Go to Menu 'Text' > 'Run Unix Command ...', type: "tail -r", choose your preferred output option and click 'OK'.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/742466/how-can-i-reverse-the-order-of-lines-in-a-file

HTH.

Best regards,

Jean Jourdain

[jj]

Wow. Parallel thinking happened here ;-)

[Ted Stresen-Reuter]

Brilliant. Thank you both!

Ted

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[Ted Burger]

Sometimes you have to pick the right tool for the job.

I would paste that list into a spreadsheet.

In the next column I would auto fill a number series.

Select it all and sort on the number column in reverse order.

Copy the column of interest and paste it back into Nnedit.

Typing took me much longer than actually doing it would take.

Thanks,

Ted

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[Patrick Woolsey]

Though BBEdit doesn't have any built-in command for doing so[*],
you could certainly apply a _text filter_ which contains any
suitable Unix script (via 'awk', 'sed', Perl, Python, etc.)

For instance, please make sure your list is followed by a
trailing linebreak, then create & apply the following:
========
#!/bin/sh
perl -e 'print reverse <>'
========

[*: Please note that Text -> Sort Lines with "Reverse sort"
enabled will re-sort the whole list into reverse alpha order
rather than just 'flipping' it.]


Regards

Patrick Woolsey
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Bare Bones Software, Inc. <https://www.barebones.com/>



On 3/8/21 at 12:14 PM, tedmas...@gmail.com (Ted

Stresen-Reuter) wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I know this can be done but am not finding the solution.
>
>Given:
>
>Lingo (Macromedia Director)
>AppleScript
>HyperTalk
>HTML

>[...]

[Christian Boyce]

You can do it in AppleScript, operating on selected text in BBEdit if you want. This isn’t the one-liner that the Unix people are giving you but it still works:

tell application "BBEdit"

set myDoc to document 1

set mySelection to the selection

set theList to contents of lines of mySelection

set newOrder to ""

repeat with aParagraph in theList

set newOrder to aParagraph & return & newOrder

end repeat

set selection to newOrder

end tell

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[Ted Stresen-Reuter]

On Mon, Mar 8, 2021 at 6:01 PM Patrick Woolsey <pwoo...@barebones.com> wrote:

[*: Please note that Text -> Sort Lines with "Reverse sort"
enabled will re-sort the whole list into reverse alpha order
rather than just 'flipping' it.]

Noted! And this was the reason I wrote to the list in the first place. In the back of my head there was a vague memory that it was possible but I simply couldn't find it.

Thanks again to all, even for the AS solution! 

[Christopher Stone]

On 03/08/2021, at 11:14, Ted Stresen-Reuter <tedmas...@gmail.com> wrote:

I know this can be done but am not finding the solution.

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Hey Ted,

I'd use `gtac` in the shell myself, but I've got the GNU Core Utilities installed on my system.  (Installs easily with MacPorts or HomeBrew.)

As for the AppleScript route:

---

set AppleScript's text item delimiters to linefeed

tell application "BBEdit"

    set selection to (reverse of (get contents of lines of selection)) as text

end tell

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Best Regards,

Chris