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Sorting numbers inside text strings

By Bob Mesibov 15/06/2017 Tutorials

I have a script that compiles and sorts museum collection data. One of the data fields is for museum registration codes, and a plain sort doesn't understand that humans expect "KS.99", for example, to come before "KS.100": My script instead uses the magic "-V" option…

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