[thelist] 1.1.2 Sorting
Scott Brady
evolt at scottbrady.net
Thu Dec 5 15:06:01 CST 2002
>> Your only hope is to parse it on the periods, sort each field left to
>right,
>> then rebuild the strings.
>
>
>I don't think that would work either. Take the example from my last post:
>
>1.1.1
>19.1.1
>2.1.1
>
>This would sort as shown above instead of the desired:
>
>1.1.1
>2.1.1
>19.1.1
>
I think they meant to parse along the periods, sort those numerically (instead of alphabetically), and then recombine the strings.
It sounds like it'd be a huge headache, but it should work.
Scott Brady
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