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Friday, April 04, 2003
Why should any application sort these three strings: "Area 2" "Area 12" "Area 20" ... into... "Area 12" "Area 2" "Area 20" ...? I'm tired of ASCII-only searches. There should be a sort order that takes into account numbers in strings. I'm sure somebody's already done it, but I don't know what the name is, and it should be there. ANSI SQL should have it. Functions in the basics of a programming language should support it. It's silly in this day and age of supercomputers on desktops that we don't have more complex standard sorting orders. Rant over. posted by ruffin at 4/04/2003 12:42:00 PM

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* Atari 2600 programming on your Mac	* joel on software (tip pt)
* Professional links: resume, github, paltry StackOverflow	* Regular Expression Introduction (copy)
* The hex editor whose name I forget	* JSONLint to pretty-ify JSON
* Using CommonDialog in VB 6	* Free zip utils
* git repo mapped drive setup	* Regex Tester
* Read the bits about the zone	* Find column in sql server db by name
* Giant ASCII Textifier in Stick Figures (in Ivrit)	* Quick intro to Javascript
* Don't [over-]sweat "micro-optimization"	* Parsing str's in VB6
* .ToString("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.fff", CultureInfo.InvariantCulture); (src)	* Break on a Lenovo T430: Fn+Alt+B
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