From: Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.org>
To: zsh-workers@sunsite.dk
Subject: reverse numeric sorting does not work
Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2007 14:24:15 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070706122415.GG18533@prunille.vinc17.org> (raw)
Hi,
Reverse numeric sorting doesn't seem to work:
prunille% echo $ZSH_VERSION
4.3.4
prunille% foo=(a6 a117 a17 b6 b117 b17)
prunille% echo ${(n)foo}
a6 a17 a117 b6 b17 b117
prunille% echo ${(On)foo}
b6 b17 b117 a6 a17 a117
instead of
b117 b17 b6 a117 a17 a6
Also the man page is ambiguous:
Are the numbers (nonnegative) integer or floating-point numbers?
It also says: "if the first differing characters of two test strings
are not digits, sorting is lexical." then "Trailing non-digits are
not sorted; the order of `2foo' and `2bar' is not defined." But on
this example, the first differing characters are not digits, so that
the sorting should be lexical, hence defined!
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next reply other threads:[~2007-07-06 12:24 UTC|newest]
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2007-07-06 12:24 Vincent Lefevre [this message]
2007-07-06 13:04 ` Peter Stephenson
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