From: WATANABE Hirofumi <eban@...>
Date: 2006-09-20T17:50:46+09:00
Subject: Re: What's the ruby way to sort string with cases in mind

Hi,

"Rimantas Liubertas" <rimantas@gmail.com> writes:

> 
> > And implementing your own
> > sort routine is not going to be anywhere near as clean as what you've
> > got.
> 
> My best try so far is like that:
> 
> a.sort{ |i,j| (i.upcase == j.upcase)? (i<=>j):(i.upcase<=>j.upcase) }
> 
> Not  elegant, but not too ugly (or is it?). I've got a feeling there
> must be a way to simplify this.

a.sort{ |i,j| [i.upcase, i] <=> [j.upcase, j] }

a.sort_by{ |i| [i.upcase, i] }

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eban