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Re: Sorting directory-files on their extension


From: Pascal J. Bourguignon
Subject: Re: Sorting directory-files on their extension
Date: Wed, 07 Oct 2009 17:12:12 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.101 (Gnus v5.10.10) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux)

Nordlöw <per.nordlow@gmail.com> writes:

> Does Emacs contain any built-in features for sorting file-names (list
> of strings) on their (file) extension?

Yes.  Emacs contains a built-in emacs lisp processor, which is able to
compute anything that is computable.

In this case:

    (sort file-list (lambda (a b)
                       (string< (file-name-extension a)
                                (file-name-extension b))))


-- 
__Pascal Bourguignon__


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