From: Michael Neumann <mneumann@...>
Date: 2004-08-01T16:56:47+09:00
Subject: Re: [RCR] natcmp.rb added to string class

Patrick May wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Natural Order String Comparison is a useful algorithm:
> 
>     http://sourcefrog.net/projects/natsort/
> 
> Alan Davies wrote an implementation of the algorithm in ruby, and it is 
> useful:
> 
>     http://sourcefrog.net/projects/natsort/natcmp.rb
> 
> I think it would be nice if String always had this method.  I hope there 
> aren't license conflicts.

Hm, I think it's good to have this as an external library. This could 
then extend both String and Array classes. E.g.

   require 'natsort'

   ["a10", "a2"].sort {|a,b| a.natcmp(b) }
   # or
   ["a10", "a2"].natsort

Regards,

   Michael