bug#17099: Does sort have a bug?

[Leslie S Satenstein]

I fell into this problem as well about 5 weeks ago.

set the environment variable

....

export LC_ALL=C 
sort .....

and the proper collating sequence will prevail.

 
Regards 

 Leslie

Mr. Leslie Satenstein
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>$ sort --version
>sort (GNU coreutils) 5.97
>Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
>This is free software.  You may redistribute copies of it under the terms of
>the GNU General Public License <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
>There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
>
>Written by Mike Haertel and Paul Eggert.
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>(2) When I sort the following,
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>     ../include/CcMsgFxStrm.h
>     ../include/CDesEncrypt.h
>     ../include/CEncrypt.h
>     include/CFixFX_Config.h
>     include/CFixFX_Handler.h
>     include/CFixFX_Server.h
>     ../include/CFxBaseMsg.h
>     include/CFXBookManager.h
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>I am expecting for all the ../include's to bunch up before or after all 
>the include's.  But, the above is already in sorted order, according to 
>sort!  Something doesn't seem right.  Is there a bug?
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>(3) If I write a C++ program as follows,
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># include <cstdio>
># include <vector>
># include <iostream>
>using namespace std;
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>int
>main ()
>{
>     vector<string> lines;
>     char buf[1024];
>     for (int i = 0; fgets (buf, sizeof buf, stdin); i++)
>         lines.push_back (buf);
>     for (int i = 0, sz = lines.size (); i < sz; i++)
>         for (int j = i + 1; j < sz; j++)
>             if (lines[j] < lines[i])
>             {
>                 string t = lines[i];
>                 lines[i] = lines[j];
>                 lines[j] = t;
>             }
>     for (int i = 0, sz = lines.size (); i < sz; i++)
>         cout << lines[i];
>}
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>For the above input, I get the following output,
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>     ../include/CDesEncrypt.h
>     ../include/CEncrypt.h
>     ../include/CFxBaseMsg.h
>     ../include/CcMsgFxStrm.h
>     include/CFXBookManager.h
>     include/CFixFX_Config.h
>     include/CFixFX_Handler.h
>     include/CFixFX_Server.h
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>(4) Thanks for looking into this and sending me a reply.
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