From: Gavin Kistner <gavin@...>
Date: 2004-10-08T23:01:07+09:00
Subject: Re: A sort_by descending sort

On Oct 8, 2004, at 7:57 AM, Michael Gaunnac wrote:
> arr = arr.sort_by {|i| [i.slice(0,2).tr('0-9','9876543210')]}  # 
> descending sort using 9's complement

Tricky, but how about just:

arr = arr.sort_by{ |n| -n.to_i }

?

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