Re: How to sort ignoring digits? (was: Contacts printing)

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Subject: Re: How to sort ignoring digits? (was: Contacts printing)
From: "Russell L. Harris" <rlharris@oplink.net>
Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2007 07:43:29 -0600
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* Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> [071106 06:42]:
> In the documentation of `sort' I couldn't find the possibility of ignoring
> digits.  I have a document that contains names and phone numbers and I wish to
> sort it by names.  The `-k' option doesn't seem to help because names and
> numbers are not in definite fields.
> 
> Any help appreciated
> Rodolfo
> 

Look at Perl.  You likely can find whatever help you need on the
Perlmongers mail list.

RLH

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