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06-16-2017, 05:37 PM	#1
LXer LXer NewsBot Registered: Dec 2005 Posts: 128,359 Rep:	LXer: Sorting numbers inside text strings Published at LXer: I have a script that compiles and sorts museum collection data. One of the data fields is for museum registration codes, and a plain sort doesn't understand that humans expect "KS.99", for example, to come before "KS.100". My script instead uses the magic "-V" option for GNU sort, and gets the human-friendly result. Read More...

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