Re: version sort suggestion

[arnold]

Ed Morton <mortoneccc@comcast.net> wrote:

> I often see people posting question on forums such as StackOverflow 
> asking about sorting data by version numbers, e.g. 
> https://stackoverflow.com/q/70972516/1745001. Currently I always 
> recommend people use GNU sort for it's `-V` option to sort by version 
> outside of awk before/after/during processing but it'd be useful if 
> sorting by version was one of the options for "sorted_in", e.g. 
> @ind_ver_asc, @val_ver_asc, etc. so people don't have to code that 
> functionality themselves or rely on calling GNU sort for it.
>
>      Ed.

Thanks for the suggestion. I don't see a reason to do this when it
can be coded if needed and a function name passed to asort or asorti.

If you wish to contribute a "version_compare" function for the manual
that could then be included in the documentation, that would be
helpful.

Arnold