On Tue 9-Jan-07 4:12pm -0600, Arun Easi wrote: > On Tue, 9 Jan 2007, Bill McCarthy wrote:
>> I thought I knew the unix sort utility fairly well. I'm a >> bit baffled. >> >> I wrote a simple program to generate 1,000 records with just >> random dates (month 1-12, day 1-30, year 1976-2007). >> >> Sorting with: >> >> :%!sort -t/ -k3 >> and >> :%!sort -t/ -k3.1n,3.4 -k1n,2 >> >> produced identical correct results! > Lines with same 3rd field are sorted lexicographically. > So, if you have MM/DD/YYYY format, that should be good. If > you have DD/MM/YYYY, it cannot be (Try adding 31/11/1996 > and 01/12/1996). Is this documented behavior? It certainly isn't mentioned in the brief docs that come with the GnuWin32 version. Do you have a URL that documents this? -- Best regards, Bill
