Re: [gentoo-user] Non-case sensitive alphabetical sorting

[Steven Lembark]

Mark David Dumlao wrote:
> When ordering items by name, a separate and distinct sequence is scene
> for A-Z before the sequence for a-z. This is the expected behavior. What
> might i need to look up to intermix [Aa]-[Zz]?


Schwartzian Transform is the perlish version of a
technique from LISP: create a compound structure
with the output as payload:

     my @sorted
     = map
     {
         $_->[-1]
     }
     sort
     {
         $a->[0] cmp $b->[0]
     }
     map
     {
         my $sortval = uc $_;

         [ $sortval, $_ ]
     }
     @unsorted_text;

You can use the basic technique to sort anything
(multi-level sorts, numeric, whatever). Same basic
process works in other languages that support anon
arrays or structs.


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