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Re: M-x sort-fields
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jrivers77 |
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Re: M-x sort-fields |
Date: |
22 Nov 2002 10:09:24 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/21.2 |
Barry Margolin <barmar@genuity.net> writes:
> In article <mailman.1037917702.29749.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
> <Raimund.Kohl@freenet.de> wrote:
>
> M-3 M-x sort-fields
>
> is the way to specify that it should sort on column 3. When I do that, I
> get:
>
> >bleblebb & 1.4. & 10,00 & 1,00
> >blahblah & 12.2. & 132,40 & 10,20
> >blubblub & 15.5. & 15,40 & 2,23
>
> Note that the sort is lexicographic, not numeric, so 8.4 will go *after*
> 12.2.
>
And if you want them sorted numerically, you can use sort-numeric-fields
in the same way.
-- JC