From: Johan Holmberg <johan556@...>
Date: 2009-05-20T15:04:27+09:00
Subject: Re: Sorting numbers as strings

On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 6:24 AM, Rob Biedenharn
<Rob@agileconsultingllc.com> wrote:
> On May 19, 2009, at 5:51 PM, Johan Holmberg wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 5:24 PM, Jack Bauer <realmadrid2727@yahoo.es>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> You guys are great. I went with Bob's (pick one, hah) since it ended up
>>> being moderately faster than the method I was originally using.
>>> --
>>
>> Here is a variant similar to the other solutions you already got:
>>
>>   puts arr.sort_by {|s| s.split(/(\d+)/).each_with_index.map {|x,i|
>> i.odd? ? x.to_i : x }}
>>
>> Works with Ruby 1.9.
>>
>> /Johan Holmberg
>
>
> Are you trying to say that you believe some part of a solution that Jack
> already accepted won't work in Ruby 1.9? (Because they should work fine.)
>
> -Rob
>

No, not at all. I tried to say that I believed *my* variant only
worked in 1.9 (and maybe 1.8.7). (I should have said "Only works with
Ruby 1.9").

Sorry for the misunderstanding.

/Johan Holmberg