Sort elements in local anti-alphabetical

[Henry Strawforrd]

I am looping through files in a folder

cd "$datain"
local filelist: dir . files "*.txt"
foreach file in `filelist' {
....
}

However, I would like to start with the one that comes alphabetically last. Is there a way to resort the local or loop backwards over the elements?

[Clyde Schechter]

local filelist: list sort filelist

local reversed
foreach f of local filelist {
    local reversed `f' `reversed'
}

display `"`reversed'"'

Now you can loop over `reversed'.

Added: Probably the first command shown is not needed. I think that filelist is "born" sorted alphabetically when created the way you did it. I'm not certain, though, and it costs very little time to sort it to be sure.