From: John Carter <john.carter@...>
Date: 2008-01-16T10:42:04+09:00
Subject: Re: sort lines alpahetically

On Wed, 16 Jan 2008, Junkone wrote:

> What is the fastest way to sort all the lines of a file alphabetically.

From the commandline :-
   sort fileName

or if you must do it from ruby
   `sort #{filename}`

or if you really don't want to break out to another utility

IO.read( fileName).split.sort





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