[seqfan] Re: sorting results by date

[Alexander Povolotsky]

Also it would be nice to have a way to search for comments inserted since
certain date.

On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 5:13 PM, Leroy Quet <q1qq2qqq3qqqq at yahoo.com> wrote:

>
> Couldn't those early sequences all be given a default which is in practice
> equal to, say, the day before the earliest published sequence submission
> date in the OEIS?
>
> Those older sequences would then be sorted to the end of the search
> results, because they are indeed the oldest sequences.
>
> Personally, I would like an advanced search option for the OEIS to be
> available someday soon, where searches could be restricted based on several
> criteria (not just based on date). Also, it would be nice if the search
> didn't ignore non-alphabetical non-numeric typewriter characters. (I would
> sometimes like to include ascii characters sometimes used in math formulae,
> such as ^, !, *, +, and =.
>
> Thanks,
> Leroy Quet
>
> --- On Sun, 3/15/09, franktaw at netscape.net <franktaw at netscape.net> wrote:
>
> > From: franktaw at netscape.net <franktaw at netscape.net>
> > Subject: [seqfan] Re: sorting results by date
> > To: seqfan at list.seqfan.eu
> > Date: Sunday, March 15, 2009, 8:20 PM
> > This is not currently possible.
> >
> > Part of the problem is that the creation date is not always
> > available
> > for older sequences.
> >
> > Franklin T. Adams-Watters
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Leroy Quet <q1qq2qqq3qqqq at yahoo.com>
> >
> > I don't know the answer to your question. I am just posting
> > to say that
> > if there
> > isn't a way to do this, then there SHOULD be a way to do
> > this.
> >
> > I have often needed to sort sequences by date, but I don't
> > know how to
> > do that.
> >
> > --- On Sun, 3/15/09, Dmitry Kamenetsky
> > <dmitry.kamenetsky at rsise.anu.edu.au>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > I have a newbie question. Is it possible to sort the
> > search
> > > results by the
> > > date of the last update, from newest to oldest? What
> > about
> > > sorting by the
> > > date of the sequence creation?
> >
> >
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