From: jake kaiden <jakekaiden@...>
Date: 2011-12-17T05:52:00+09:00
Subject: Re: Writing My Own Sorting Method (New to Ruby)

Dave Aronson wrote in post #1037062

> Imagine if you have two 4-char strings inserted.
> You'll have them at indices 4 and 5.  Then you get a 5-char string, so
> you insert it at 5.  It will push the first 4-char string up by one.
> (That's the one at 5, having been already pushed up once by the
> second.).  So, the 5-char one will be sandwiched between two 4-char
> ones, not sorted.
>

  good point!  open hand to forehead...

  - j

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