From: Devin Mullins <twifkak@...>
Date: 2006-09-20T12:10:58+09:00
Subject: Re: What's the ruby way to sort string with cases in mind

Sam Kong wrote:
> I'd like to sort an array of strings case-insensitively.
Alternate method (slightly "faster", maybe):
a = %w(a c b A C B)
a.sort {|a,b| a.casecmp b} #=> ["a", "A", "b", "B", "c", "C"]

> Actually, I want ["A", "a", "B", "b", "C", "c"] .
> I can get the result with the following trick.
> 
> a.sort_by {|i| i.upcase + i}
Clever.

> But I think there's a more rubyish way.
> How do you do that?
No clue. Maybe implement your own comparator? {|a,b| dict_order(a,b)}?

Devin