From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2007-11-01T08:26:08+09:00
Subject: Re: Sorting a string...

Hi --

On Thu, 1 Nov 2007, Daniel Waite wrote:

> I was porting a small Python script over to Ruby and realized Ruby does
> not sort strings as I expected it would.
>
> 'cba'.sort # ["cba"]
>
> So I wrote this...
>
> class String
>
>  def sort
>    bytes = Array.new
>    self.each_byte { |byte| bytes << byte }
>    bytes.sort.collect { |byte| byte.chr }.join
>  end
>
> end
>
> 'cba'.sort # "abc"

I wouldn't overwrite a core method like that; you could end up with
some very unexpected results. It's better to give it a different name.


David

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