How to write the sort result to the original file

[Kevin]

read qm help for findrx
findrx
 ARRAY(CHARRANGE)result receives start and end offsets of the match and submatches. The CHARRANGE type is used to store start and end positions of a substring in a string.
 
type CHARRANGE cpMin cpMax 
cpMin - start of substring (match or submatch) in string. It is 0-based index of first character of substring in string.
cpMax - end of substring.

offset=cpMin
length=cpMax-cpMin

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i changed some of the variable names so it hopefully makes more sense to you now

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int SelectionEndPosition
str s=sub.getAutotextItem("At" SelectionEndPosition)
ARRAY(str) a=s
a.sort(2)
s=a
;;code: Write the sort result to the original file
mac+ "At"
int h=GetQmCodeEditor
SendMessage(h SCI.SCI_GOTOLINE 1 0)
int SelectionStartPosition=SendMessage(h SCI.SCI_GETCURRENTPOS 0 0)
SendMessage(h SCI.SCI_SETSEL SelectionStartPosition SelectionEndPosition)
s.setclip
SendMessage(h SCI.SCI_PASTE 0 0)
#sub getAutotextItem
function~ ~name &EndPosition
str pattern="(?m)^(.+\s\:.+)"
_s.getmacro(name 0);
ARRAY(CHARRANGE) a; int i
findrx(_s pattern 0 4 a)
str items t
for i 0 a.len
,int StartPosition(a[0 i].cpMin) length(a[0 i].cpMax-a[0 i].cpMin)
,t.get(_s StartPosition length)
,items.formata("%s[]" t.trim)
,EndPosition=a[0 i].cpMax
ret items