Hi *, I'm refering to coreutils-6.4.
Based on a discussion on the german gentoo-forum (http://www.gentooforum.de/thread.php?threadid=11947&hilight=sort), I've noticed that sort doesn't use the tab as delimiter when provided by the '-t' option. As I then examined the code, sort actually takes the literal 't' as delimiter when passed this line: $ sort -t \t -k 2 FILE When doing things like this: $ sort -t "\t" -k 2 FILE Sort complains about a multi-character string. Therefore, when I patched at line 2553: $ diff src/sort.c src/sort.c.org 2545c2545 < char newtab = optarg[0]; --- > char newtab = optarg[0]; 2552,2554d2551 < else < if (STREQ (optarg, "\\t")) < newtab = '\t'; sort *really* uses tab as the sort delimiter. I think it would be nice to add this tab-capabilities to the sort command, or are there any objections against using it? kind Regards, Oliver Maurhart PS: Full working snippet starting at Line 2543: ----------------------------------------------- case 't': { char newtab = optarg[0]; if (! newtab) error (SORT_FAILURE, 0, _("empty tab")); if (optarg[1]) { if (STREQ (optarg, "\\0")) newtab = '\0'; else if (STREQ (optarg, "\\t")) newtab = '\t'; else { /* Provoke with `sort -txx'. Complain about "multi-character tab" instead of "multibyte tab", so that the diagnostic's wording does not need to be changed once multibyte characters are supported. */ error (SORT_FAILURE, 0, _("multi-character tab %s"), quote (optarg)); } } if (tab != TAB_DEFAULT && tab != newtab) error (SORT_FAILURE, 0, _("incompatible tabs")); tab = newtab; } break; ----------------------------------------------- -- /** * This is my signature * * @return all may account data (if you need it) */ CAddress CEMailSignature::getMyAddress() const { QString sTitle = "Dipl.Ing."; QString sName = "Oliver Maurhart"; QString sProfession = "Software Development"; QString sStreet = "Duernfeld 3"; QString sCity = "9064 Pischeldorf"; QString sState = "AUSTRIA"; // Telefon as hex: 0x3EAB83D3B45 // But as dec seems more convenient, doesn't it? QString sTelefon = "+43 / (0)664 / 825 12 05"; // should return: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" QString sEMail = getCurrentMail().getFrom(); // Chat? try { ICQ::openChat(194511669); MSN::openChat("[EMAIL PROTECTED]"); } catch (IM::IamOfflineException& cException) { fprintf(stdout, "Sorry, but %s\n", cException.getReason()); } // normaly I use a single line here ... return CAddress(sName, sProfession, sStreet, sCity, sState, sTelefon, sEMail); }
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