sorting pathnames by basename

Erik Price erikprice at mac.com
Tue Aug 20 12:30:36 EDT 2002


On Tuesday, August 20, 2002, at 08:07  AM, Kevin D. Clark wrote:

> In fact, my one-liner is probably the cannonical way that an
> experienced Perl programmer would have solved that problem (or, at
> least, pretty close).

For that matter, I find that the word "cannonical" is bandied about in 
Perl culture far more than anywhere else!  ;)  Interesting for a 
language in which there's more than one way to do things.

(Programming Perl defines that word in its glossary as "Reduced to a 
standard form to facilitate comparison.")




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