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From: Nordlöw <per.nordlow@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Sorting directory-files on their extension
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2009 08:11:00 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9fd0a6fe-430a-4049-9647-beed044ca3b2@m1g2000vbi.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: c95b6949-6d7f-4eec-91bf-ef0204d506bd@p15g2000vbl.googlegroups.com

On Oct 7, 4:35 pm, Nordlöw <per.nord...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Does Emacs contain any built-in features for sorting file-names (list
> of strings) on their (file) extension?
>
> /NOrdlöw

Is this a good candidate?:

(defun compare-extensions (a b)
  (compare-strings
   (file-name-extension a) 0 (length (file-name-extension a))
   (file-name-extension b) 0 (length (file-name-extension b))))
;; Use: (sort '("a.c" "a.h" "b.c" "b.h") 'compare-extensions)

/Nordlöw


  reply	other threads:[~2009-10-07 15:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-07 14:35 Sorting directory-files on their extension Nordlöw
2009-10-07 15:11 ` Nordlöw [this message]
2009-10-07 15:17   ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2009-10-07 15:12 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2009-10-07 15:59 ` Harry Putnam
2009-10-07 16:04 ` Harry Putnam

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