X-Git-Url: http://wagnertech.de/git?p=kivitendo-erp.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Fmodules%2FREADME.Sort-Naturally;fp=doc%2Fmodules%2FREADME.Sort-Naturally;h=0000000000000000000000000000000000000000;hp=4fa4f1e7267f6e325780ae0302a892b578b40d15;hb=53593baa211863fbf66540cf1bcc36c8fb37257f;hpb=deb4d2dbb676d7d6f69dfe7815d6e0cb09bd4a44 diff --git a/doc/modules/README.Sort-Naturally b/doc/modules/README.Sort-Naturally deleted file mode 100644 index 4fa4f1e72..000000000 --- a/doc/modules/README.Sort-Naturally +++ /dev/null @@ -1,124 +0,0 @@ -README for Sort::Naturally - Time-stamp: "2001-05-25 21:17:33 MDT" - - Sort::Naturally - -[extracted from the Pod...] - -NAME - Sort::Naturally -- sort lexically, but sort numeral parts - numerically - -SYNOPSIS - @them = nsort(qw( - foo12a foo12z foo13a foo 14 9x foo12 fooa foolio Foolio Foo12a - )); - print join(' ', @them), "\n"; - - Prints: - - 9x 14 foo fooa foolio Foolio foo12 foo12a Foo12a foo12z foo13a - - (Or "foo12a" + "Foo12a" and "foolio" + "Foolio" and might be - switched, depending on your locale.) - -DESCRIPTION - This module exports two functions, nsort and ncmp; they are - used in implementing my idea of a "natural sorting" - algorithm. Under natural sorting, numeric substrings are - compared numerically, and other word-characters are compared - lexically. - - This is the way I define natural sorting: - - o Non-numeric word-character substrings are sorted - lexically, case-insensitively: "Foo" comes between - "fish" and "fowl". - - o Numeric substrings are sorted numerically: "100" comes - after "20", not before. - - o \W substrings (neither words-characters nor digits) are - ignored. - - o Our use of \w, \d, \D, and \W is locale-sensitive: - Sort::Naturally uses a use locale statement. - - o When comparing two strings, where a numeric substring - in one place is not up against a numeric substring in - another, the non-numeric always comes first. This is - fudged by reading pretending that the lack of a number - substring has the value -1, like so: - - foo => "foo", -1 - foobar => "foo", -1, "bar" - foo13 => "foo", 13, - foo13xyz => "foo", 13, "xyz" - - That's so that "foo" will come before "foo13", which - will come before "foobar". - - o The start of a string is exceptional: leading non-\W - (non-word, non-digit) components are are ignored, and - numbers come before letters. - - o I define "numeric substring" just as sequences matching - m/\d+/ -- scientific notation, commas, decimals, etc., - are not seen. If your data has thousands separators in - numbers ("20,000 Leagues Under The Sea" or "20.000 - lieues sous les mers"), consider stripping them before - feeding them to nsort or ncmp. - -[end Pod extract] - - -INSTALLATION - -You install Sort::Naturally, as you would install any perl module -library, by running these commands: - - perl Makefile.PL - make - make test - make install - -If you want to install a private copy of Sort::Naturally in your home -directory, then you should try to produce the initial Makefile with -something like this command: - - perl Makefile.PL LIB=~/perl - -See perldoc perlmodinstall for more information on installing modules. - - -DOCUMENTATION - -POD-format documentation is included in Naturally.pm. POD is readable -with the 'perldoc' utility. See ChangeLog for recent changes. - - -SUPPORT - -Questions, bug reports, useful code bits, and suggestions for -Sort::Naturally should just be sent to me at sburke@cpan.org - - -AVAILABILITY - -The latest version of Sort::Naturally is available from the -Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN). Visit - to find a CPAN site near you. - - -COPYRIGHT - -Copyright 2001, Sean M. Burke , all rights -reserved. - -The programs and documentation in this dist are distributed in -the hope that they will be useful, but without any warranty; without -even the implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a -particular purpose. - -This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify -it under the same terms as Perl itself.