Weird sorting with underscores versus dashes

[rlwhitcomb]

Consider these two arrays:

a1 = [ "a_1", "a1_1", "a2_1" ]
a2 = [ "a-1", "a1-1", "a2-1" ]

Which when sorted using this "natural order" code gives these results:

sort a1 => [ "a1_1", "a2_1", "a_1" ]
sort a2 => [ "a-1", "a1-1", "a2-1" ]

I would have expected the order we see for a2 on both, which is what I've seen in other places doing "natural order" sorting (as in, "sort each subgroup that are separated by punctuation").

What do you think? I don't have code changes to handle this (yet), though.

[616slayer616]

Hi @rlwhitcomb
sorry I had not seen the issue.

I will look into it.

But I don't know if I can fix it

[rlwhitcomb]

Just pulled the code. Works like a champ. Thanks, @616slayer616!