Re: [FWP] sorting text in human-order

[sthoenna@efn.org (Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes)]

In article <m2y9y2258z.fsf@rt158.private.realtime.co.uk>,
Piers Cawley <pdcawley@bofh.org.uk> wrote:
> sthoenna@efn.org (Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes) writes:
> 
> >       $srt =~ tr/0-9a-z\xe9/a-jA-ZE/;  # uc & sort nums after letters
> 
> `10' is going to sort before `2' with that rule. Having done the whole
> bitter experience thing with this, may I suggest:
> 
>         $srt =~ s/(\d+)/unpack("B32", pack("N",$1))/eg

How about something like (untested):

s/(\d+)/printf "%0".$Config{uvsize}*2."x", $1/eg

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