From: harven <harven@free.fr>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: case-insensitive string<
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 15:58:18 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2fxg74c1x.fsf@free.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.5527.1239975614.31690.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Nikolaj Schumacher <me@nschum.de> writes:
> What's the fastest way to sort a large list of strings in a
> case-insensitive order?
>
> Calling downcase on every string is rather expensive. Does anyone know
> a better way?
The sort built-in function uses string< as predicate.
You could use compare-strings instead. It has an option IGNORE-CASE.
Hope that helps.
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2009-04-17 13:58 ` harven [this message]
2009-04-17 15:07 ` case-insensitive string< thierry.volpiatto
2009-04-17 21:04 ` Nikolaj Schumacher
2009-04-17 21:17 ` thierry.volpiatto
2009-04-17 17:01 ` Ted Zlatanov
2009-04-17 21:13 ` Nikolaj Schumacher
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2009-04-20 18:37 ` Ted Zlatanov
2009-04-17 13:40 Nikolaj Schumacher
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