[Tuglist] [Repost] Sorting notaion
H.S.Rai
tuglist@tug.org.in
Thu, 22 Aug 2002 14:10:31 +0530 (IST)
Below is my original mail. In brief I want to sort
notations typed at random, so that I get sequence of
symbols in following order:
A a BB Bb bb
and then greek letters which start with \ in LaTeX like
\alpha and \beta
I am sure this is not a unique problem to me only, most
you must have faced such difficulty earlier and must
have found solution also.
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H.S.Rai
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Aug 13 at 7:25pm +0530 H.S.Rai wrote:
I tabulated noations in a tex file, which I wish to sort
in following manner:
First all greek symbols, i.e symbol starting with \ (e.g.
\alpha etc ) then in alphanumerical order with lower case on
top. Following should be list of sorted notation ( Please
treat every variable in new line, I typed in one line to
save number of lines )
\alpha aa aA Aa b B c1
On sorting unsorted data with "sort", I get result as shown
below. It place "\c" next to "c".
Is this affected by LC_COLLATE, if yes, how to manipulate
it? and if this is the only way, then it may be difficult
for me as I know little about such things.
Unsorted
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B b B c \A D e a \c
Sorted I get with "sort" command
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a \A b B B c \c D e
Desirable
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\A \c a b B B c D e
Is "sort" the only utility to do this?
Any other trick?
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H.S.Rai
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