Re: Sort collating sequence
From: David Candy (.)
Date: 02/02/05
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Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2005 15:03:33 +1100
Yes we do.
1/ Sort is a win32 program
2/ It uses two sorting modes - the sort mode of the user or another which I don't know what it does. [Trying to find how locale affects sorting is very difficult]
/L[OCALE] locale Overrides the system default locale with
the specified one. The ""C"" locale yields
the fastest collating sequence and is
currently the only alternative. The sort
is always case insensitive.
-- ---------------------------------------------------------- http://www.uscricket.com "VManes" <vmanes@N0SP&Mrap.midco.net> wrote in message news:StadnYBBiZdn0Z3fRVn-oA@midco.net... > The out of sequence use of the "_" character is probably a Microsoftism - > this lets you force a directory (folder) or filename to be sorted before > similar named ones in directory/folder views. I use this a lot to put a > folder I want up front to be there, without having to give it a different > name. > > Or, it's really and undocumented change to a minimally documented aspect of > the sort.exe program. In the MS-DOS Encyclopedia (1988), "...with versions > 3.0 and later, SORT assigns lowercase letters the same ASCII value as > uppercase letters; hence, case is effectively ignored." > Perhaps someone revised to code to treat uppercase by their lowercase > equivalent? NO, I don't think it's that, because the underscore is also > collated before digits, which is way out whack with ASCII. > > It's just an M$ thing - no one understands! > > Val > > *************************** > > "Bractals" <Bractals@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message > news:FB38B31C-6B87-495D-812D-615C8CBA2E0B@microsoft.com... > The following file segments were sorted with > qsort.exe (an old DOS program) and Windows > sort.exe program. Note that sort.exe has > the underscore '_' before the letters 'C' > and 'S'. This does not conform to ASCII. > > Qsort.exe Collating Sequence > > C:\DELL\ALERT\ > C:\DELL\ALERT\0 \ > C:\DELL\ALERT\0\+CCC.GIF > C:\DELL\ALERT\0\+___.GIF > C:\DELL\ALERT\0\10675121.GIF > C:\DELL\ALERT\0\ALERT.GIF > C:\DELL\ALERT\0\OFFDELL.GIF > C:\DELL\ALERT\0\PRIVACYSEAL.GIF > C:\DELL\ALERT\0\PRIVACY_CONTENT.HTM > C:\DELL\ALERT\0\RELIABILITYSEAL.GIF > > Sort.exe Collating Sequence > > C:\DELL\ALERT\ > C:\DELL\ALERT\0 \ > C:\DELL\ALERT\0\+___.GIF > C:\DELL\ALERT\0\+CCC.GIF > C:\DELL\ALERT\0\10675121.GIF > C:\DELL\ALERT\0\ALERT.GIF > C:\DELL\ALERT\0\OFFDELL.GIF > C:\DELL\ALERT\0\PRIVACY_CONTENT.HTM > C:\DELL\ALERT\0\PRIVACYSEAL.GIF > C:\DELL\ALERT\0\RELIABILITYSEAL.GIF > > Bractals > > > "VManes" wrote: > >> What makes you think it's not doing ASCII based sorting? Please provide a >> sample input and output, and point out what's wrong. >> >> val >> -- >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >> www.sdsmt.edu >> The best little engineering school you >> may not have heard of, but should have! >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >> "Bractals" <Bractals@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message >> news:96807CAA-10E4-4D2D-9E71-5001482C9DC0@microsoft.com... >> I used the sort.exe command at the command prompt. The collating sequence >> does not seem to conform to ASCII. Does anybody know how to force the sort >> command to conform to the ASCII collating sequence? >> >> >> > >
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