From: Sebastian Hungerecker <sepp2k@...>
Date: 2008-10-13T08:54:17+09:00
Subject: Re: Sorting help

Ron Askew wrote:
> I the values are actually numeric, they should be stored as numerics,
> manipulated as numerics, and sorted as numerics.
>
> So... the question is: WHY ARE THEY STRINGS?

PROBABLY BECAUSE THE OP REALIZED THAT 10.1.25 ISN'T REALLY A LEGAL NUMBER.
And he either did not think of storing it as [10,1,25] or maybe he reads it 
from user input or from a file. Though of course the solution (to get 
numerical sorting) still is to get it into that form (split(".").map(&:to_i)) 
and then sort.

HTH,
Sebastian
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