Re: bin/37860: sort -n sorts 0 after 0.1

[Alan Barrett <apb%cequrux.com@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR bin/37860; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Alan Barrett <apb%cequrux.com@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: netbsd-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Subject: Re: bin/37860: sort -n sorts 0 after 0.1
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 11:20:49 +0200

 On Thu, 24 Jan 2008, Alexander Becher wrote:
 > Sorting lines that contain only numbers between 0 and 1 with the -n
 > option leads lines that contain only "0" to be sorted after lines that
 > start with "0.0". Obviously, 0.01 < 0 < 0.2 is wrong, but that's the
 > resulting sort order.
 
 Please try the patch in PR 30504.  I really should commit that some
 time.
 
 --apb (Alan Barrett)