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- Subject: sort: incorrect result when sorting on subfields
- From: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
- Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2007 02:54:25 +0100
- Message-id: <200701140254.25604.elendil@planet.nl>
Package: coreutils Version: 5.97-5 Whilst testing a patch for Busybox sort, I encountered this bug in GNU sort. $ sort -k4.2,4.4 test 999 3 0 algebra egg 1 2 papyrus 7 3 42 soup 42 1 3 woot 42 1 010 zoology $ sort -k4.3,4.5 test egg 1 2 papyrus 999 3 0 algebra 42 1 010 zoology 42 1 3 woot 7 3 42 soup In the first example, sort should, according to the info page, take the second to fourth character of the fourth field, but instead it sorts on the first letter. Only if the character limits are increased by one do I get the correct result. I suspect that a delimiter character (space?) is included at the start of the string and that that is counted as the first character. Cheers, FJPAttachment: pgpVkSxlySHJq.pgp
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- Subject: Bug#406785: sort: incorrect result when sorting on subfields
- From: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
- Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2007 01:04:56 +0100
- Message-id: <200701150105.25766.elendil@planet.nl>
Closing as this is not a bug in current busybox. The reason this is not a bug is explained in the GNU sort info page for the -t option: `-t SEPARATOR' `--field-separator=SEPARATOR' Use character SEPARATOR as the field separator when finding the sort keys in each line. By default, fields are separated by the empty string between a non-blank character and a blank character. That is, given the input line ` foo bar', `sort' breaks it into fields ` foo' and ` bar'. Note the leading spaces in the last line in the case that no separator is used. Not really intuitive, but well. (Using the -b option fixes the issue.)Attachment: pgp6U6w0mgD6S.pgp
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