From: "Lawrence Velázquez" <larryv@zsh.org>
To: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: nesting issue
Date: Sun, 05 May 2024 16:14:31 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8d597bb5-39c8-4544-ad1a-907a79bf4cba@app.fastmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <eabbd3e4-ef9e-4ff2-8510-a6427a11f08a@eastlink.ca>
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
--
vq
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-05-05 20:16 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 [this message]
2024-05-05 22:18 ` Ray Andrews
2024-05-05 23:26 ` Lawrence Velázquez
2024-05-06 1:51 ` Ray Andrews
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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