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Re: address@hidden: Re: sort -N patch: sort in natural order]
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Kamil Dudka |
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Re: address@hidden: Re: sort -N patch: sort in natural order] |
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Fri, 5 Jun 2009 17:35:37 +0200 |
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Hello Martin,
On Friday 05 of June 2009 09:42:32 Martin Sarfy wrote:
> Hello,
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> attached there is a patch against coreutils-6.10/sort.c implementing
> "Natural order sorting" (e.g. "A1" < "A2" < "A10"), using "-N" parameter.
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> Please, consider it's inclusion in upstream :-)
could you please compare the proposed algorithm to "sort -V" from the last
coreutils? In which cases can't we use the version sort algorithm and need
the "Natural order sorting"? Thanks in advance!
Kamil