Re: [sc-dev] Re: [sc-users] Re: String sorting ?

[James Harkins <jamshark70@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Dec 28, 2009, at 3:11 AM, Scott Wilson wrote:

Shall I just add this for 3.4? It's in BEASTmulchLib at the moment, but that's a bit of a heavy duty install just for a natural sort.

I should make it a primitive, but don't have time or mental bandwidth for that now.

Fine with me, as a stopgap until a primitive is ready.

(Raises the specter of locale-aware string comparison, once we have multibyte strings.)

hjh

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