Re: easy numfound search?

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2001


It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 37044
interpreted = N
texte = Celeste Paul wrote: > > uhm.. not exactly. i have many records whose value is fish. and i have > not so many records whose value is green and not so many whose value > is bottle. i want fish to appear at the top of my list before green > and bottle > Do a summary search for the field in question, which will return how many records have each value. Inside that search, do another search which has the additional limit of eqFIELDdata=[field] and your list will magically be sorted by the frequency of the each value of field.QEDJohnp.s. unless you have less than 2 screenfuls of data, I would suggest making the interior search just be a link to those records, rather than the records themselves-- John Peacock Director of Information Research and Technology Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group 4720 Boston Way Lanham, MD 20706 301-459-3366 x.5010 fax 301-429-5747------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/ Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

    
  1. Re: easy numfound search? (Celeste Paul 2001)
  2. Re: easy numfound search? (John Peacock 2001)
  3. Re: easy numfound search? (Tad 2001)
  4. Re: easy numfound search? (Clint Davis 2001)
  5. easy numfound search? (Celeste Paul 2001)
  6. Re: easy numfound search? (John Peacock 2001)
Celeste Paul wrote: > > uhm.. not exactly. i have many records whose value is fish. and i have > not so many records whose value is green and not so many whose value > is bottle. i want fish to appear at the top of my list before green > and bottle > Do a summary search for the field in question, which will return how many records have each value. Inside that search, do another search which has the additional limit of eqFIELDdata=[field] and your list will magically be sorted by the frequency of the each value of field.QEDJohnp.s. unless you have less than 2 screenfuls of data, I would suggest making the interior search just be a link to those records, rather than the records themselves-- John Peacock Director of Information Research and Technology Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group 4720 Boston Way Lanham, MD 20706 301-459-3366 x.5010 fax 301-429-5747------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/ John Peacock

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