Thread: General Sorting Tool For Sorting Functions And Their Blocks Of Code Into A Language

Hi. Maybe someone can help me. I am not a programmer and have wound up with a large programming task. I'm using Actionscript, but that's irrelevant to my issue (asking why I'm using Actionscript is a fair question - I was visually impaired during the lengthy creation of the program, and could not learn C whereas Actionscript was a no brainer - now this program is basically a huge concoction and I would like to pay someone to create a similar program in C, but thus far I have not found someone with the necessary backgrounds).

Basically I've gotten a huge list of functions and thousands of lines of code, and excel does not seem to be able to sort the code without altering it. I.e. I can't easily copy and paste the code from Excel even if I entered it and sorted it. So I'm hoping to find the best tool keeps the function names associated with their respective function code blocks, and lets one sort these blocks in terms of function name. I already have a scheme that logically handles the ordering by name, so once I have such a sorting it will be much easier to add new functions to the right places.

If you could help me I would be mucho grateful.

Open your ActionScript in Notepad++. It's an editor with a tool called functions list right on the toolbar - lists all of your functions sorted and moves around your source file when you click on a name.

I haven't used Notepad++ in a long time, but can't you "collapse" the functions in the editor and use CTRL+UP/DOWN (or whatever moves whole lines) to move them, along with their blocks? This way you might be able to get them into a sorted order by hand in an hour. Once that order is established, you can browse through the list and add any new function in the right spot from the beginning. I think that's what I would try.

If you insist in having a program do this after the fact, and your ActionScript functions are consistently written using the same syntax, e.g.

Code:

function some_fun()
{
    code_here;
}

... then I'm sure this re-ordering could be done with a fairly simple (Python) script that someone could write for you.