sorting order of print

sorting order of print

[Hubert Canon]

Hi,

With zsh-3.1.6 (I don't know for other versions), I don't know how to
tell print to sort its arguments case-dependently.

I see in the manual page zshbuiltins :
           -o    Print the arguments sorted in ascending order.

          -O    Print the arguments sorted in descending order.

          -i    If given together with -o or -O, sorting is  per-
               formed case-independently.

And I try these :

% print foo bar Hux gee
foo bar Hux gee
% print -o foo bar Hux gee 
bar foo gee Hux
% print -oi foo bar Hux gee 
bar foo gee Hux

I believe that I should get :

% print -o foo bar Hux gee 
Hux bar foo gee



By the way : I wanted to sort the result of the globbing pattern
case-dependently (like ls), but I didn't find how. The option
NUMERIC_GLOB_SORT has no effect.

RE: sorting order of print

[Andrej Borsenkow]

> And I try these :
>
> % print foo bar Hux gee
> foo bar Hux gee
> % print -o foo bar Hux gee
> bar foo gee Hux
> % print -oi foo bar Hux gee
> bar foo gee Hux
>
> I believe that I should get :
>
> % print -o foo bar Hux gee
> Hux bar foo gee
>
>

I believe, print sorts in current locale order. What locale do you have? What do
you get if you just do

sort <
foo
bar
Hux
gee
^D

??

/andrej

Re: sorting order of print

[Hubert Canon]

Andrej Borsenkow écrivait :
> I believe, print sorts in current locale order.

You are right

> What locale do you have?

% echo $LANG
fr

This solves my problem :

% LANG=C print -o foo bar Hux gee 
Hux bar foo gee


Thank you for your response.

Re: sorting order of print

[Sven Wischnowsky]

Hubert Canon wrote:

> % print foo bar Hux gee
> foo bar Hux gee
> % print -o foo bar Hux gee 
> bar foo gee Hux
> % print -oi foo bar Hux gee 
> bar foo gee Hux
> 
> I believe that I should get :
> 
> % print -o foo bar Hux gee 
> Hux bar foo gee

You should. And since I *do* get this... do you set locale information?
If so, this is probably what's making this fail. If not, I don't know
where it comes from.

Bye
 Sven


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Sven Wischnowsky                         wischnow@informatik.hu-berlin.de