Re: The Alphanum Algorithm for Lua

["Andrew Wilson" <agrwagrw@...>]

Thanks guys, I thought I'd seen a Lua version around somewhere before!  AGRW

On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 1:19 PM, Ico Doornekamp <lua@zevv.nl> wrote:
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> * On 2008-06-03 Petite Abeille <petite.abeille@gmail.com> wrote  :
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>> On Jun 3, 2008, at 7:04 PM, Andrew Wilson wrote:
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>>> While trying to do a nice natural sorting style example for Lua based
>>> on site http://www.davekoelle.com/alphanum.html site, I wasn't verify
>>> satisfied with my example,
>>> does anyone have a better method of splitting a string into table of
>>> strings and numbers, than my chunkString function below. I know I'm
>>> missing some simple string.gmatch way of doing it.
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>> FWIW, here is another implementation of the same algorithm:
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>> http://dev.alt.textdrive.com/browser/HTTP/NaturalComparator.lua
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> That's funny: I swear I have never seen this implementation, but it's
> 100% the same as the solution I just proposed :)
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