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Why not enhance "sort" to handle floating point numbers?
From: |
Steve Wald |
Subject: |
Why not enhance "sort" to handle floating point numbers? |
Date: |
Fri, 7 Nov 2008 12:29:25 -0800 |
Hi.
It would be real handy if sort had an option analogous to -n which would
properly handle columns of exponential notation numbers, e.g.
-9.575e-08, or even if the -n option itself would detect and sort them.
Much of my data is mixed exponential and decimal notation.
Steve Wald
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208 321-2441
- Why not enhance "sort" to handle floating point numbers?,
Steve Wald <=