sorting words ?

Geoff Canyon gcanyon at gmail.com
Fri Dec 11 18:14:54 EST 2015


On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 3:28 AM, Mark Waddingham <mark at livecode.com> wrote:

> Hehe - perhaps best not to open that particular can of worms. For what its
> worth, I'd actually class that behavior as an anomaly as it breaks the
> logic of string lists - if there is a trailing delimiter, the trailing
> delimiter should be ignored but preserved: sorting "the,quick,brown,"
> should result in "brown,quick,the," and not ",brown,quick,the". (Indeed, I
> noticed this particular case hadn't been added to BZ - it has now:
> http://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=16588).
>

​Brace yourself​ for debate, I'm guessing (although this makes perfect
sense to me).



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