[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Package: coreutils > Version: 5.97-5.3 > Severity: normal > > sort -g foo > > where foo contains ... > returns > > 1.286960e-04 > 3.068035e-08 > 3.093938e-02 > 3.504910e-12 > 3.576523e-13 > 4.161794e-22 > 5.129078e-02 > 7.579623e-02 > > Numbers in scientific notation are sorted by prefix, what is not correct. > This happens when [EMAIL PROTECTED] but not when LANG is unset.
Thanks for the report, but that's the way sort -g is documented to work. To get the ordering you want in your locale, convert each "." to ",". E.g., this should do what you want: sed 's/\./,/g' foo | sort -g -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
