From: Farrel Lifson <farrel.lifson@...>
Date: 2006-12-21T00:18:36+09:00
Subject: Re: tricky sort for happy visitors of Paris

On 20/12/06, Josselin <josselin@wanadoo.fr> wrote:
> all happy visitors of Paris know about the 'arrondissement', an
> administrative division of the city...  20 divisions
>
> selecting them from a city table I can map them as :
>
> ['Paris 1'  , 'Paris 10' , 'Paris 11' , .....  'Paris 19' , 'Paris 2' ,
>  'Paris 20' , 'Paris 3' , .... 'Paris 9' ]
>
> is there any way to sort this array and get :
>
> ['Paris 1'  , 'Paris 2' , 'Paris 3' , .... 'Paris 9' , 'Paris 10' ,
> 'Paris 11' , .....  'Paris 19' , 'Paris 20' ]
>
> which seems betetr in a list... ;-))
>
> thanks for your light
>
> joss
>
>
>

["Paris 1","Paris 10","Paris 2"].sort_by{|a| a.split[1].to_i}

Farrel