Re: nesting issue

[Lawrence Velázquez <larryv@xxxxxxx>]

On Sun, May 5, 2024, at 9:52 AM, Ray Andrews wrote:
> 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'.

Those are not the same.

	% : >foo{-2,10,1,+3}
	% print -l -- foo*(n)
	foo+3
	foo-2
	foo1
	foo10
	% printf %s\\n foo* | gsort -V
	foo1
	foo10
	foo+3
	foo-2


> This is what I dare say everybody wants:

Nonsense.  There is no universally desired sort.  It depends entirely
on what the application needs.


> One quibble, I see (cut down):
>
> aaa,3a,pard
> aaa,3,pard

I don't see this behavior.

	% locale
	LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
	LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
	LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
	LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
	LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
	LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
	LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
	LC_ALL=
	% : >aaa,3{,a},pard
	% in=(aaa,*(n)) 
	% print -l $in
	aaa,3,pard
	aaa,3a,pard


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