Re: M-x sort-fields

[jrivers77]

Barry Margolin <barmar@genuity.net> writes:

> In article <mailman.1037917702.29749.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
>  <Raimund.Kohl@freenet.de> wrote:
> 
> M-3 M-x sort-fields
> 
> is the way to specify that it should sort on column 3.  When I do that, I
> get:
> 
> >bleblebb  &  1.4.   &  10,00  &   1,00
> >blahblah  &  12.2.  & 132,40  &  10,20
> >blubblub  &  15.5.  &  15,40  &   2,23
> 
> Note that the sort is lexicographic, not numeric, so 8.4 will go *after*
> 12.2.
> 

And if you want them sorted numerically, you can use sort-numeric-fields
in the same way.

-- JC