From: Stefan Rusterholz <apeiros@...>
Date: 2007-11-01T19:19:08+09:00
Subject: Re: Sorting a string...

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...

If you just want to sort by byte-value (i.e. disregarding the 
possibility of a multibyte-encoding and ignoring umlauts etc.), you can 
do:
str.unpack("C*").sort.pack("C*")
It's about twice as fast as
str.split(//).sort.join

Regards
Stefan
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