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From: "Mary Dalrymple" <dalrymple@parc.xerox.com>
Subject: list sorting problem
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 15:38:40 PDT	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <a9539p$k1s$1@news.parc.xerox.com> (raw)

Can someone help me with the sorting function?  I'm getting the following
behavior.

(setq before '(("FEATa" "NP4" "N" . "another comment about np")
 ("FEATURE" "NP3" "N" . "another comment about np")))

display before:

before's value is
(("FEATa" "NP4" "N" . "another comment about np")
 ("FEATURE" "NP3" "N" . "another comment about np"))

sort before:

(sort before (lambda (a b) (string< (car a) (car b))))

display before:

before's value is
(("FEATa" "NP4" "N" . "another comment about np"))

One of the list elements disappears.  This happens in Emacs 20.7.1.  Can
someone tell me what is going on?  Thanks --

 - Mary Dalrymple

             reply	other threads:[~2002-04-11 22:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-04-11 22:38 Mary Dalrymple [this message]
2002-04-11 23:09 ` list sorting problem Vivek Dasmohapatra

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