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TucknDar
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« on: June 22, 2009, 03:23:18 PM »
Ok, I suppose any decent text editor should be able to sort lines based on alphabet or numbers, but I'm looking for a tool that can sort lines based on Natural order sorting, i.e.

from this:
Quote
1. some text
10. yet more text
1011. Text
2. more text again
4. more text
to:
Quote
1. some text
2. more text again
4. more text
10. yet more text
1011. Text

No GUI necessary, btw. command line tool would be perfect smiley

thanks!
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« Reply #1 on: June 22, 2009, 03:47:41 PM »
See the following websites for more general info:
http://www.codinghorror.c...blog/archives/001018.html
http://www.codeproject.co.../NaturalSortComparer.aspx

I've done an algorithm for excel using the Windows API function in XP... someone might be able to use that to simplify things.

Kevin
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« Reply #2 on: June 23, 2009, 12:25:51 PM »
Quote from: TucknDar on June 22, 2009, 03:23:18 PM
No GUI necessary, btw. command line tool would be perfect smiley

The Unix "sort -n" command will do this easily. 

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skwire@hankoku ~
$ clip
1. some text
10. yet more text
1011. Text
2. more text again
4. more text

skwire@hankoku ~
$ clip | sort -n
1. some text
2. more text again
4. more text
10. yet more text
1011. Text

skwire@hankoku ~

I've attached a Win32 binary version of the Unix sort command.

* sort.zip (30.13 KB - downloaded 122 times.)
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« Reply #3 on: June 23, 2009, 12:35:47 PM »
Thanks, skwier, works great smiley
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