[MacPerl] Library alphabetizing rules

[Kevin van Haaren <kevinv@hockey.net>]

I dug around on CPAN and couldn't find what I was looking for (I 
looked in the modules by-category 11_String_Lang_Text_Proc area 
mainly the Lingua, Search, String & Text areas).  Does anyone know of 
a module (or just a subroutine) that will take a string and return a 
string munged by some rules of alphabetizing so that a standard sort 
on an array/hash of such strings will result in a list alphabetized 
by those rules?

For example, The/a/an are usually dropped from titles for 
alphabetizing.  So passing "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" would 
return "adventures of sherlock holmes"

If you don't know of such a module, does anyone know where a list of 
these rules are listed? (One that i'm interested in is that most 
libraries file author names like MacSomething and McSomething in the 
same area (treating Mc as Mac?))

Thanks - Kevin

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