From: Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca>
To: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: nesting issue
Date: Sun, 5 May 2024 18:51:39 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6cfb08f8-ee3d-40fa-be88-cb10882bc1d0@eastlink.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <58741215-7c41-4230-8eb5-6556bd969140@app.fastmail.com>
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On 2024-05-05 16:26, Lawrence Velázquez wrote:
>> ... I don't know what to say.
> Seems like differing locales (which I overlooked earlier). On
> Debian 12:
Man ... I dunno, maybe the world needs different sorting logic between
Canada and the US but to me it just looks like making trouble. Anyway
kudos for figuring that out.
I would have expected:
>> aaa,6,
>> aaa,6a
>> aaa,6,howdy
>> aaa,6a,howdy
> Why?
Because at least the dictionary sort proceeds left to right with each
subsequent character sorted as a sub-sort within the fixed sort arrived
at by previous characters. IOW as you move right, nothing ever changes
to the left. If 'aaa,6,' precedes 'aaa,6a' then every possible
expansion of 'aaa,6,' will precede every possible expansion of 'aaa,6a'.
It's the same as with numbers: every 2,xxx is greater than every 1,xxx.
I suppose there's something in the version sort that interferes with
that. Mind ... (n) is not an explicit version sort, so what's the
algorithm? This gets interesting. And ... Ooops, no, that's not what
I'm expecting I'm expecting:
> aaa,6,
> aaa,6,howdy
> aaa,6a
> aaa,6a,howdy
... a few more tests ... 'sort -V' is different. But '(n)' seems the
same as 'sort -n':
aaa,6
aaa,6,
aaa,6a
aaa,6a,
aaa,6a,howdy
aaa,6,howdy # I'd just like to know how this ends up last. I'd expect
it 3d. Both version sort and '(n)' agree that this is last. There will
be an algorithm I'd just like to know what it is.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-05-06 1:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-05-04 19:36 Ray Andrews
2024-05-05 3:20 ` Bart Schaefer
2024-05-05 5:39 ` Lawrence Velázquez
2024-05-05 5:40 ` Roman Perepelitsa
2024-05-05 13:52 ` Ray Andrews
2024-05-05 20:14 ` Lawrence Velázquez
2024-05-05 22:18 ` Ray Andrews
2024-05-05 23:26 ` Lawrence Velázquez
2024-05-06 1:51 ` Ray Andrews [this message]
2024-05-06 3:22 ` Bart Schaefer
2024-05-06 13:01 ` Ray Andrews
2024-05-06 3:43 ` Lawrence Velázquez
2024-05-06 13:09 ` Ray Andrews
2024-05-05 13:13 ` Ray Andrews
2024-05-05 19:44 ` Lawrence Velázquez
2024-05-05 20:14 ` Ray Andrews
2024-05-05 20:45 ` Lawrence Velázquez
2024-05-05 22:22 ` Ray Andrews
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