On Fri, 10 May 2002, civileme wrote: > > > Not strange at all... > > in a terminal window, run locale > > Check the value of LC_COLLATE > > If it is en_US this is quite normal, the collating sequence is AaBbCc, etc. > > If you want the result you seek, make your program use upper as > suggested or set your LC_COLLATE to POSIX. > > > No, it is not a bug, it is a standard expanded feature that keeps > programmers on their toes to write platform independent stuff.
I could forgive myself if I hadn't just answered an 'ls doesn't sort right question' about two minutes before the above. But then I did: export LC_LOCATE=C awk -f simple.awk sample.txt Weird, same errors... :/ (note stupid syntax error).
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