On 10/8/21 7:32 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
it's not a thousands separator, rather a grouping
character,
and groups can be in 2, 3, 4, and even 5.
Sure, but 'sort' could determine the group sizes from the locale, and
reject digit strings that are formatted improperly according to the
On 08/10/2021 21:48, Paul Eggert wrote:
On 10/8/21 6:37 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
The difference here is due to ',' being treated as a thousands sep,
not a decimal point.
Oh, thanks. Of course! I should have figured that out myself.
It is unfortunate that "," is treated as a thousands
On 10/8/21 6:37 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
The difference here is due to ',' being treated as a thousands sep,
not a decimal point.
Oh, thanks. Of course! I should have figured that out myself.
It is unfortunate that "," is treated as a thousands seperator even
though it's obviously not one
On 04/10/2021 21:01, Paul Eggert wrote:
On 10/4/21 08:58, Pádraig Brady wrote:
The --debug option points out the issue:
$ printf '%s\n' 1,a 0,9 | sort --debug -nk1 -t ,
sort: key 1 is numeric and spans multiple fields
1,a
_
___
0,9
___
___
As Juncheng points
