From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jean Louis Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: [SOLVED] Re: Need help with sort function for tabulated-list-format Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2022 08:01:00 +0000 Message-ID: References: <87bks6pza2.fsf@dataswamp.org> <87pmgmnwmf.fsf@dataswamp.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="22674"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" To: Emanuel Berg , help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 29 10:02:35 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1oSZj8-0005k7-VK for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 29 Aug 2022 10:02:34 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42954 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oSZj7-0001lZ-Nx for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 29 Aug 2022 04:02:33 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:39188) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oSZiT-0001lM-Bf for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Aug 2022 04:01:53 -0400 Original-Received: from stw1.rcdrun.com ([217.170.207.13]:41955) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oSZiR-0001wr-ML for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Aug 2022 04:01:52 -0400 Original-Received: from [154.224.48.215] ([::ffff:154.224.48.215]) (AUTH: PLAIN admin, TLS: TLS1.2,128bits,ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256) by stw1.rcdrun.com with ESMTPSA id 00000000000B5B05.00000000630C724C.00005E2C; Mon, 29 Aug 2022 01:01:15 -0700 In-Reply-To: <87pmgmnwmf.fsf@dataswamp.org> Received-SPF: pass client-ip=217.170.207.13; envelope-from=bugs@gnu.support; helo=stw1.rcdrun.com X-Spam_score_int: -18 X-Spam_score: -1.9 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.9 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:139144 Archived-At: Let me elaborate, it was about converting strings to numbers and during tab= ulated list mode by those converted numbers=2E Predicate function was needed=2E Did you review it? On August 27, 2022 4:22:48 AM UTC, Emanuel Berg wr= ote: >Jean Louis wrote: > >> So I had to make a function that converts strings to numbers > >Such a function already exists, `string-to-number' but =2E=2E=2E why >are integers stored in and as strings to begin with? Jean