Ordering by size first makes very little sense to me. It makes it very hard
to sort any list of strings.
I was hoping that the following would have done so, but it also suffers
from the "length first" issue:
*z[⍋ ⎕UCS¨ z←'aa' 'xx' 'aaa' 'xxx']*
aa xx aaa xxx
What is the proper way to sort strings given the existing semantics of
grade?
Regards,
Elias
On 8 July 2014 02:34, David Lamkins <da...@lamkins.net> wrote:
> Looking at the spec, it seems that monadic grade is defined only for
> numeric data.
>
> That leaves open the question of whether my example should have signaled a
> domain error.
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 11:25 AM, David Lamkins <da...@lamkins.net> wrote:
>
>> Given a list of character vectors (and scalars), grade appears to
>> generate the permutation vector first by length then by content.
>>
>> ⍋'aaa' 'xx' 'y' 'bbb' 'cc'
>> 3 5 2 1 4
>>
>> This seems counterintuitive. It seems as if ⍋ treats character strings
>> like numbers. Is this a bug?
>>
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