>>>>> "Rich" == Rich Shepard <[email protected]> writes:
Rich> [...] Using -g (general sort), [...] I want to take this opportunity to personally take credit for the -g option to sort. The patch that added this was at my behest, it interpretted numbers in scientific notation. commit 34fc818d7edaefcc4a420f1da3b7002d35aa4103 Author: Jim Meyering <[email protected]> Date: Wed Nov 15 21:42:47 1995 +0000 Add support for sorting numbers in scientific notation. Include xstrtod.h. (struct keyfield): Add field: general_numeric. (usage): Describe -g option. (general_numcompare): New function. (keycompare): Use new comparison function when general_numeric flag is set. (set_ordering): Honor `g' flag. (main): Initialize and use new field. From Marcus Daniels <[email protected]>. Marcus was working for us at the time. It is much slower than a normal sort, but if you need to sort scientific notation, it's real helpful. -- Russell Senior, President [email protected] _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
