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sort takes separator into sort key even if it should not.


From: Matus fantomas Uhlar
Subject: sort takes separator into sort key even if it should not.
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 15:57:55 +0200
User-agent: Mutt/1.3.28i

The subject says it all. Example:

work-uhlar: cat test
aaaaa
aaaa1
aaaaa1

work-uhlar: sort test
aaaa1
aaaaa
aaaaa1

This is sorted OK...

work-uhlar: cat test
aaaaa:
aaaa1:
aaaaa1:

work-uhlar: sort test
aaaa1:
aaaaa1:
aaaaa:

this is OK. 

work-uhlar: sort -t: test
aaaa1:
aaaaa1:
aaaaa:

work-uhlar: sort -t: -k1 test
aaaa1:
aaaaa1:
aaaaa:

This is not OK. According to info page:

   The field separator is not considered to be part of either the field
   preceding or the field following.

Thus, the : should not be taken into comparision and in the result, it
should look like this:

aaaa1:
aaaaa:
aaaaa1:

sorted in the same order as if ':' weren't there.

Please fix it.

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