Re: sort feature (can't believe this hasn't been implemented yet)

[Paul Eggert]

Edward Peschko <address@hidden> writes:

> ok, well I'll endeavor to add it - although I can't believe I'm the
> first person to try to use sort to sort records from a relational
> database (its pretty common practice to use multiple line delimiters
> because of the possibility of embedded newlines or other such in the
> data)

But what if your data contains backslash-newline?  Then
backslash-newline isn't safe either.  Better might be a safe escaping
scheme (e.g., use "\n" to represent newline and "\\" to represent
backslash).  Of course the resulting data won't sort correctly, but
that's true of any escaping scheme.

> Is this a trivial change to make?

It shouldn't be that hard, but it probably won't be trivial either.