RE: [mv] v3.12 - [sort] not working with [loop args]

["Christopher Thompson" <ct@arborinternet.com>]

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I agree, I don't think sort will work on a loop through values, but might
work on [loop search=..."] which seems to be a no frills [search-region].

I infer from Mike's comments that [loop] works by duplicating the code
within the loop for each item in the list, and doing a sort of macro
replacement of the [loop-...] tags as it goes. It is not really a
branching loop the normal sense.

Remember, MML is not a programming language. Believing it is will cause no
end of suffering.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-minivend-users@minivend.com
> [mailto:owner-minivend-users@minivend.com]On Behalf Of Ryan Hertz
> Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2000 2:38 PM
> To: minivend-users@minivend.com
> Subject: Re: [mv] v3.12 - [sort] not working with [loop args]
>
>
> ******    message to minivend-users from Ryan Hertz
> <rhertz@gyb.baits.com>     ******
>
> At 11:27 AM 4/12/00 , you wrote:
> >******    message to minivend-users from Ed LaFrance
> ><edlafrance@printexusa.com>     ******
> >[snip]
>
> >...still a blank page!  Finally I tried:
> >
> >[loop arg="4 3 2 1"]
> >         [sort]
> >         [loop-code]
> >[/loop]
> >
> >...and...
> >
> >[loop arg="4 3 2 1"]
> >         [loop-code]
> >[/loop]
> >
> >At last the args were listed on the page, but they were not
> sorted in the
> >instance where the [sort] tag was included.
> >
> >So, it appears that:
> >
> >1). [loop arg arg arg] does not work at all, though the docs say it is
> >legal; [loop arg="arg arg arg"] must be used instead;
>
>          I agree.
>
>
> >2). [sort] does not work at all in this context.  I have used [sort
> >database::fieldname] with [tag each database] and [loop
> search], so I know
> >those work, but when the loop data is supplied as a literal
> argument or
> >variable string and/or the sort is based on the loop data
> itself (instead
> >of a related database field), the sort tag appears to be broken.
>
>          It doesn't make logical sense to me that the sort
> would be inside
> the loop.  It seems that in that syntax that each looped arg
> will exist as
> a single item, sorting a single item wouldn't do much.  Perhaps if the
> [sort] encompassed the [loop] it would work.  But, :-), I don't
> have much
> experience with using [sort].
>
>
>
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