From: jrivers77@yahoo.com
Subject: Re: M-x sort-fields
Date: 22 Nov 2002 10:09:24 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <wkhee9fxp7.fsf@us.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: MqeD9.46$zO5.1769@paloalto-snr1.gtei.net
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
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2002-11-21 23:58 ` M-x sort-fields Barry Margolin
2002-11-22 15:09 ` jrivers77 [this message]
[not found] ` <mailman.1037978603.28367.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2002-11-24 14:46 ` Kai Großjohann
2002-11-21 23:24 Raimund.Kohl
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