From: "Joseph L. Casale" <jcasale@...>
Date: 2008-03-03T15:09:23+09:00
Subject: Re: Building your own string sorting method

> On 3/2/08, Joseph L. Casale <jcasale@activenetwerx.com> wrote:
> > I am trying to find examples of this to help me but can't seem to
> locate any on the web. Anyone know of any online examples? I know ruby
> has a built in method for sorting an array, but it's part of a
> tutorial...
>
> A simple example would be a natural order comparison ("a20" sorting
> before "a120"). A bit of googling turned up Alan Davies' String#natcmp
> implementation:
>
> http://sourcefrog.net/projects/natsort/natcmp.rb
>
> Christopher

Hi Christopher and Daniel,
You'll have to bear with me as I have just started learning Ruby and both examples seem a bit over my head as of yet. Is there anything more basic you know of?

Thanks for being patient :)
jlc