Re: [help-recutils] Any way to sort in a descending order?

[Héctor A . Abreu]

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,
-- 
Héctor A. Abreu