Re: Why not enhance sort to handle floating point numbers?
On Fri, 7 Nov 2008, Steve Wald wrote: It would be real handy if sort had an option analogous to -n which would properly handle columns of exponential notation numbers, e.g. -9.575e-08, or even if the -n option itself would detect and sort them. Much of my data is mixed exponential and decimal notation. You're in luck - sort's -g option does exactly this. Cheers, Phil ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
Why not enhance sort to handle floating point numbers?
Hi. It would be real handy if sort had an option analogous to -n which would properly handle columns of exponential notation numbers, e.g. -9.575e-08, or even if the -n option itself would detect and sort them. Much of my data is mixed exponential and decimal notation. Steve Wald [EMAIL PROTECTED] 208 321-2441 ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
