SortAssocLists

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See also AnchorizeAssocLists.

Once called all document’s associative lists become sorted by their term name (<dt>).

Parameters

by

Either text or raw. The first compares items’ plain text while the latter compares their source markup. For example, when comparing **bold** and apriore text compares «bold» and «apriore» and the latter goes the first while raw compares «**b…» and "«a…» and the former comes before the latter.

collation

Name of collation used to compare strings (using strcoll function); is passed to setlocale PHP function. Since UverseWiki internally works with UTF-8 this collation must specify UTF-8 as well – for this reason if «.UTF-8» suffix isn’t given it’s appended automatically.

• Sample collation names (for most *nix systems): ru_RU, en_US.

desc

Lets you sort lists in descending order.

on

render Lets you delay this action to run on render phase rather than on parse phase – this way it’s possible to sort associative lists dynamically produced by other actions, if any. This flag is always set when by is text.

type

Comparison type: str (default), int, float. Last two options pick from items’ value (see by) earliest substrings looking like numbers and compares them. For float decimal part separators are period and comma (4.5 and 4,5 are the same).

Sorting individual lists

This action affects all lists in current document so you can’t sort some of them using one set of settings and others using a different setup. However, you can create nested documents with %%(wacko) formatter:

As you see,

this list is sorted as

Note

the order – asterisk goes before «And».

strings

based on items’ raw markup.

33

sorted as integers

22

in descending order.

11

And this list is