Re: Bug in Sort !?!?
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- Subject: [mg126962] Re: Bug in Sort !?!?
- From: nanobio9 <kuokan.liang at gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 05:15:22 -0400 (EDT)
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On 6=E6=9C=8819=E6=97=A5, =E4=B8=8B=E5=8D=883=E6=99=8218=E5=88=86, James Stein <mathgr... at stein.org> wrote:
> The documentation says: "Sort orders strings as in a dictionary, with
> uppercase versions of letters coming after lowercase ones." It is
> therefore unsurprising that { "3", "4", "4b" } are already sorted.
> But who can correctly predict the three True/False values produced by
> the six lines below? (And who can explain it?)
>
> s={"3","4","4b"};
> Sort[s] == s
> s=Map[StringJoin[#,"."]&,s];
> Sort[s] == s
> s=Map[StringJoin[#,"nb"]&,s];
> Sort[s] == s
The character code of "." is 46, smaller than "a", "1", etc. I do not
see a bug here.
Regards,
KKL
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