From 5493d92bca31724b9d26d04f87dd3b9f13d1b123 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kamil Dudka
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2010 12:36:43 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] sort -V now ignores leading white spaces * src/sort.c (compare_version): Skip all white spaces before the call of filevercmp (). * tests/misc/sort-version: Add a related test case. * NEWS: Mention the change as a change in behavior. --- NEWS | 2 ++ src/sort.c | 10 +++++++++- tests/misc/sort-version | 4 ++++ 3 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 2a3ca63..7eb2a0d 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -35,6 +35,8 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- join -t '' no longer emits an error and instead operates on each line as a whole (even if they contain NUL characters). + sort -V now ignores leading white spaces + * Noteworthy changes in release 8.4 (2010-01-13) [stable] diff --git a/src/sort.c b/src/sort.c index 39cb6d6..c9663eb 100644 --- a/src/sort.c +++ b/src/sort.c @@ -1979,6 +1979,8 @@ static int compare_version (char *restrict texta, size_t lena, char *restrict textb, size_t lenb) { + char const *a = texta; + char const *b = textb; int diff; /* It is necessary to save the character after the end of the field. @@ -1990,7 +1992,13 @@ compare_version (char *restrict texta, size_t lena, texta[lena] = '\0'; textb[lenb] = '\0'; - diff = filevercmp (texta, textb); + /* skip all blanks */ + while (blanks[to_uchar (*a)]) + a++; + while (blanks[to_uchar (*b)]) + b++; + + diff = filevercmp (a, b); texta[lena] = sv_a; textb[lenb] = sv_b; diff --git a/tests/misc/sort-version b/tests/misc/sort-version index 741ee8b..60e3e90 100755 --- a/tests/misc/sort-version +++ b/tests/misc/sort-version @@ -24,6 +24,8 @@ fi . $srcdir/test-lib.sh cat > in << _EOF_ +11 + 1 gcc-c++-10.fc9.tar.gz gcc-c++-10.8.12-0.7rc2.fc9.tar.bz2 glibc-2-0.1.beta1.fc10.rpm @@ -65,6 +67,8 @@ string start 5.90.0 end of str _EOF_ cat > exp << _EOF_ + 1 +11 gcc-c++-10.fc9.tar.gz gcc-c++-10.8.12-0.7rc2.fc9.tar.bz2 glibc-2-0.1.beta1.fc10.rpm -- 1.6.2.5