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Re: [help-recutils] Any way to sort in a descending order?
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Héctor A . Abreu |
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Re: [help-recutils] Any way to sort in a descending order? |
Date: |
Fri, 13 Jul 2018 09:51:15 -0400 |
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Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) |
On Fri, Jul 13, 2018 at 03:32:03PM +0200, Jose E. Marchesi wrote:
>
> Hi Héctor.
>
> The manual says that "The sorting is always done in ascending
> order". Since I need a report sorted by quantity in a descending
> order, I thought that storing the quantity multiplied by (-1) will do
> the trick, but even though the quantity is stored with a negative sign
> the sorted output ignores the negative sign, as if it only pays
> attention to the absolute value, so the output is basically the
> opposite of the desired one.
>
> Is there any way to get the output in a descending order?
>
> Not using recfix. That's something I want to implement, because it is a
> rather silly limitation.
>
Thank you for letting me know. It is true it is a silly limitation, I can make
it work without the descending sort feature.
Regards,
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Héctor A. Abreu