From: dblack@...
Date: 2007-07-05T22:43:29+09:00
Subject: Re: unintended consequence: string.sort

Hi --

On Thu, 5 Jul 2007, Martin DeMello wrote:

> irb(main):001:0> "hello world".sort
> => ["hello world"]
>
> (Because Enumerable#sort calls to_a, and String#to_a = [string])
>
> However this is inconsistent with String#each, and almost certainly
> never what the user wants.  I'd suggest
> String.split($/).sort.join($/).

I don't think it's inconsistent with String#each:

>> "hello world".each {|x| p x }
"hello world"

If you have multiple lines it will sort that way:

>> "hello\nworld".sort
=> ["hello\n", "world"]


David

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