[Boost-bugs] [Boost C++ Libraries] #11020: Natural sort

Subject: [Boost-bugs] [Boost C++ Libraries] #11020: Natural sort
From: Boost C++ Libraries (noreply_at_[hidden])
Date: 2015-02-13 17:00:57

#11020: Natural sort
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 Reporter:  anonymous  |       Type:  Bugs
   Status:  new        |  Milestone:  To Be Determined
Component:  None       |    Version:  Boost 1.57.0
 Severity:  Problem    |   Keywords:
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 Alphabetically sorting gives unwanted results for humans. For example the
 following strings get sorted this way:
 Arena 1
 Arena 10
 Arena 2

 What humans like is:
 Arena 1
 Arena 2
 Arena 10

 This is not trivial since the numbers can appear anywhere. Would this be a
 nice extension for Boost as well? Microsoft has solved this in
 StrCmpLogicalW. See also 'sorting-for-humans-natural-sort-order' (can't
 include a link; I get a trac-think-it-is-a-spam error)

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Ticket URL: <https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/11020>
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