[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mar 29, 4:19 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John W. Krahn) wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
When I do string comparisons in perl the strings seem to ignore the
embedded hyphens.
I want to sort strings assuming the 'dictionary' order of the chars is
ASCII order: hypen, 0-9, A-Z.
It appears linux sort also has the problem (LC_ALL is blank).
Any ideas? I want to avoid a brute force char by char sort if
possible.
Please provide an *example* of your data, what it would look like if
sorted "properly", and what it actually looks like after being sorted.
unsorted:
22
2-2
2-3
23
21
linux sort produces:
21
22
2-2
23
2-3
desired sort:
2-2
2-3
21
22
23
It appears to work in Perl:
$ perl -le'@x = qw[22 2-2 2-3 23 21]; print for sort @x'
2-2
2-3
21
22
23
John
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