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Re: Sorting directory-files on their extension


From: Nordlöw
Subject: Re: Sorting directory-files on their extension
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2009 08:11:00 -0700 (PDT)
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On Oct 7, 4:35 pm, Nordlöw <per.nord...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Does Emacs contain any built-in features for sorting file-names (list
> of strings) on their (file) extension?
>
> /NOrdlöw

Is this a good candidate?:

(defun compare-extensions (a b)
  (compare-strings
   (file-name-extension a) 0 (length (file-name-extension a))
   (file-name-extension b) 0 (length (file-name-extension b))))
;; Use: (sort '("a.c" "a.h" "b.c" "b.h") 'compare-extensions)

/Nordlöw


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