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Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2011 01:46:20 -0500 (CDT)
From: Rory Mulvaney <rorymulv@gmail.com>
To: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: using parameter expansion sorting flags
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Hello,

I have a few filenames that I put into an array with:

PNMFILES=( f.*.{Atop,Bbot}.pnm )

the ordered contents of this array become:

f.0009.Atop.pnm f.0010.Atop.pnm f.0011.Atop.pnm f.0012.Atop.pnm
f.0009.Bbot.pnm f.0010.Bbot.pnm f.0011.Bbot.pnm

Now I can't figure out how to order them in an array, using the parameter
expansion sorting flags n and o, as:

f.0009.Atop.pnm f.0009.Bbot.pnm f.0010.Atop.pnm f.0010.Bbot.pnm
f.0011.Atop.pnm f.0011.Bbot.pnm f.0012.Atop.pnm

Also I'd like the resulting resorted array PNMFILES2 to be such that:

echo ${PNMFILES2[2]} 

yields:

f.0009.Bbot.pnm

rather than some single character.

Thanks and regards again,
Rory