Re: sort

[John Haxby <jch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Joseph A Nagy Jr wrote:

> I know for a fact that Perl's sort is in pure ASCIIbetical order, not
>
> sure what it depends on, though. If the original poster would like a 
> script created, I might be able to oblige him (not sure on a few 
> functions, but that isn't a HUGE problem, just might take me a while)
>  
Yes, but, in perlfunc:

>               When "use locale" is in effect, "sort LIST" sorts LIST 
> accord-
>                ing to the current collation locale.  See perllocale.


If the locale's collation sequence bothers you like it does me just put

   export LC_COLLATE=C

in your .bash_profile like I do.    You don't need to jump through 
hoops.   Or use perl :-)    Incidentally, collation is done by 
converting from UTF-8 to UCS-2 (roughly speaking) and then using a 
language-specific collation order.    It's very slow.  0.25s for the 
dictionary vs 0.06s for the same dictionary with LC_COLLATE=C.   That's 
the main reason you'll see LANG=C cmd ... all over the place in the 
initscripts.

jch