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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

 



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