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Re: case-insensitive string<
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Ted Zlatanov |
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Re: case-insensitive string< |
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Fri, 17 Apr 2009 12:01:15 -0500 |
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On Fri, 17 Apr 2009 15:40:03 +0200 Nikolaj Schumacher <me@nschum.de> wrote:
NS> What's the fastest way to sort a large list of strings in a
NS> case-insensitive order?
NS> Calling downcase on every string is rather expensive. Does anyone know
NS> a better way?
Perhaps you can use `sort' with a predicate that uses `compare-strings'?
The latter function has a ignore-case parameter, and is implemented in C
so should be quite fast.
btw, BBDB has a string> macro, and subr.el has a string< alias to
string-lessp, which gets a bit confusing :).
Ted