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Re: Sorting Strings: How and Why so f$&!ing hard?

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• Subject: [mg60843] Re: [mg60802] Sorting Strings: How and Why so f$&!ing hard?
• From: János <janos.lobb at yale.edu>
• Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 03:57:11 -0400 (EDT)
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On Sep 29, 2005, at 5:41 AM, Michael A. Gilchrist wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to sort the following list.  I eventually resorted to  
> doing it
> by hand but would like to know why Mathematica's sort won't do it.
>
> In[1]= Sort[{"AG17.TXT", "BM14.TXT", "CC03.TXT", "GP21.TXT",  
> "IG06.TXT",
> "SDR19.TXT, AG18.TXT", "CA09.TXT", "CC04.TXT", "GP22.TXT", "PK07.TXT",
> "SDR20.TXT, BM13.TXT", "CA10.TXT", "CD15.TXT", "IG05.TXT",  
> "PK08.TXT"}]
>
> Out[1]= {"AG17.TXT", "BM14.TXT", "CA09.TXT", "CA10.TXT", "CC03.TXT",
> "CC04.TXT", "CD15.TXT", "GP21.TXT", "GP22.TXT", "IG05.TXT",  
> "IG06.TXT",
> "PK07.TXT", "PK08.TXT", "SDR19.TXT, AG18.TXT", "SDR20.TXT, BM13.TXT"}
>
>
>
> Should this really be so hard?

Not if you add the four missing quotes to it :)

"SDR19.TXT, AG18.TXT"  and "SDR20.TXT, BM13.TXT" should be:

"SDR19.TXT", "AG18.TXT"  and "SDR20.TXT", "BM13.TXT"

I think.

János

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  • Sorting Strings: How and Why so f$&!ing hard?
    • From: "Michael A. Gilchrist" <mikeg@utk.edu>