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Re: Simple String question

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• Subject: [mg110695] Re: Simple String question
• From: Leonid Shifrin <lshifr at gmail.com>
• Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2010 07:26:43 -0400 (EDT)

Hi Steve,

I don't know how to do that purely with strings, but it is not hard to do by
splitting to characters:

In[1]:=
StringJoin[#1, " ", #2] & @@
 StringJoin @@@
  Sort[Sort[Characters[#]] & /@ StringSplit["623 715", " "]]

Out[1]= "157 236"

Regards,
Leonid


On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 11:54 PM, S. B. Gray <stevebg at roadrunner.com> wrote:

> I have strings like foo="623 715". foo will always be 3 digits, space, 3
> digits. I need to put each set of digits in numerical order and then put
> the two triples in order. This would give 157 236. There must be a
> simple way to do this, but I see nothing under string sorting.
>
> Steve Gray
>
>