What I’m I missing here?
This is wrong.
julia> sort(["Vila Flor", "Vila da Flor"])
2-element Vector{String}:
"Vila Flor"
"Vila da Flor"
correct output should be
"Vila da Flor"
"Vila Flor"
What makes you say this is wrong?
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Capitalization does matter here, since:
julia> 'F' < 'd'
true
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Note, you can use the by keyword to give your own custom preprocessing before each argument is compared.
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Thanks, that was it. Had tried with Windows name sorting that gave me what I was expecting but possibly because on Win names are case insensitive.
julia> sort(["Vila Flor", "Vila da Flor"], by=uppercase)
2-element Vector{String}:
"Vila da Flor"
"Vila Flor"
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Note that simply doing converting to uppercase might possibly not sort correctly outside of ASCII (correct uppercasing is itself language-dependent). If you need proper locale-dependent sorting (“collation”), I think you can find it in the StrICU package.
Right, but these are Portuguese names so all inside ASCII. And I checked that now the sorting does what is expected when comparing the names to those of another file that are previously sorted.
It might be worth keeping in mind that:
julia> sort(["a", "ã", "â", "c", "ç", "e", "ê", "o", "õ", "z"], by=uppercase)
10-element Array{String,1}:
"a"
"c"
"e"
"o"
"z"
"â"
"ã"
"ç"
"ê"
"õ"
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