Re: The Alphanum Algorithm for Lua

[Ico Doornekamp <lua@...>]

* On 2008-06-03 Petite Abeille <petite.abeille@gmail.com> wrote  :

>
> On Jun 3, 2008, at 7:04 PM, Andrew Wilson wrote:
>
>> While trying to do a nice natural sorting style example for Lua based
>> on site http://www.davekoelle.com/alphanum.html site, I wasn't verify
>> satisfied with my example,
>> does anyone have a better method of splitting a string into table of
>> strings and numbers, than my chunkString function below. I know I'm
>> missing some simple string.gmatch way of doing it.
>
>
> FWIW, here is another implementation of the same algorithm:
>
> http://dev.alt.textdrive.com/browser/HTTP/NaturalComparator.lua

That's funny: I swear I have never seen this implementation, but it's
100% the same as the solution I just proposed :)

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