[OCLUG-devel] Lexicographically Sorted

Christopher Smith x at xman.org
Wed May 25 17:59:17 PDT 2005


Christopher Smith wrote:
> Chris Berry wrote:
>> No problem, except I haven't been able to figure out what 
>> lexicographic ordering is.  I know how to sort alphabetically and 
>> ASCIIbetically, but lexicographically is a new one.  When I looked on 
>> google, it seemed like everyone thought it was so obvious it didn't 
>> need to be explained.  Can someone clue me in here?
> 
> man strcoll
> man wcscoll (wide character version)

For more details on the joys of POSIX locale's, I highly recommend The 
Open Group's web site:

http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/xbd/locale.html

--Chris


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