Sort based on length of line and alphabetical each length

[agent86]

I need to sort a text file, longest line length to shortest, and alphabetical with the list for each length that is the same length. Any ideas?

Thanks

[ben_josephs]

There's no way in TextPad of sorting lines by length that I know of. You can use regular expressions to find lines of a given length (or shorter than or greater than a given length) but it would be very tedious to use them for sorting.

^.{42}$ matches lines exactly 42 characters long.
^.{42,}$ matches lines at least 42 characters long.
^.{0,41}$ matches lines at most 42 characters long.

These assume you are using Posix regular expression syntax:

Configure | Preferences | Editor

[X] Use POSIX regular expression syntax

You can use Tools | Sort... to sort the lines in each group of lines of the same length. This, again, could be very tedious.