Re: nesting issue

[Ray Andrews <rayandrews@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2024-05-04 22:40, Roman Perepelitsa wrote:

>     local sorted=( $1,*(nN) )
    
    Beautiful.  I get a 'version sort' in one go which is just what I
    want.  Subsequent to my code snip I run the thing through ' | sort
    -V ' to get the version sort, but  little 'n' is smart enough to
    handle that in one line.  Dunno, it always seemed to me that
    'numeric sort' is intuitively what the sort command calls 'version
    sort'.  
    
    This is what I dare say everybody wants:
    
    8 /aWorking/Zsh/Source/Wk/Boneyard 1 % local in=(aaa,*(nN)); print
    -l $in
    aaa,1
    aaa,2
    aaa,2,howdy
    aaa,3a,pard
    aaa,3,pard
    aaa,4,2a howdy
    aaa,5c,pard
    aaa,5,pard
    aaa,6
    aaa,6a,howdy
    aaa,7,aaa,7
    aaa,8
    aaa,9
    aaa,9a
    aaa,10
    aaa,11
    aaa,11,pard
    aaa,12,12a
    aaa,12,some_somme
    
    (
    One quibble, I see (cut down):
    
    aaa,3a,pard
    aaa,3,pard
    aaa,6
    aaa,6a,howdy
    
    ... I'd expect 
    
    aaa,3,pard
    aaa,3a,pard 
    
    ... however ' sort -V' does exactly the same as 'n' so I'm not
    whining. 
    )
    
    ... and this is not:
    
    8 /aWorking/Zsh/Source/Wk/Boneyard 1 % local in=(aaa,*(nN)); print
    -l $in | sort -n
    aaa,1
    aaa,10
    aaa,11
    aaa,11,pard
    aaa,12,12a
    aaa,12,some_somme
    aaa,2
    aaa,2,howdy
    aaa,3a,pard
    aaa,3,pard
    aaa,4,2a howdy
    aaa,5c,pard
    aaa,5,pard
    aaa,6
    aaa,6a,howdy
    aaa,7,aaa,7
    aaa,8
    aaa,9
    aaa,9a
    
    (sorry about the garbage filenames, they're stress testers.)