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Dear Ben, Indeed, I did post this question before. That was well observed of you. I have now reread the replies received at that occasion; they are still little helpful for my purposes. I need to group morphologically related terms in the content (180,000 terms) of the Dutch medical spellchecker ...

Dear fellow users of TextPad, As a linguist I often need to sort thousands of strings in long word lists in a backwards (retrograde) manner. Thus, e.g. all words ending on -ing are grouped. I now use a complex tool outside TextPad for this, which takes up to 10 minutes for each listing. Is it ...

Gentlemen, thanks for your attempt to help me out. Alas, I am no Perl programmer, so this code is abacadabra to me. Will this input enable/motivate Helios to include reverse sorting in a future update of TextPad?
Sincerely, Arnoud

Hi Bob, Thanks for suggesting. No, that is not what I mean. Consider: - ascending sorting: Bob | Dick | Harry | John | Paul - descending sorting: Paul | John | Harry | Dick | Bob - sorted reversely, you would get: Bob | Dick | Paul | John | Harry, based on the names' last letters, here resp. b, k, l ...

As a Dutch lexicographer and developer of medical dictionaries and a medical spellchecker, I use TextPad for coding and sorting lexical data. I would be greatly helped with an option under F9 for sorting lines in reverse order (retrograde). Is this an option that will be appreciated by others too ...