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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: strcmp
Message-ID: <1991Jun25.180039.25946@zoo.toronto.edu>
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 1991 18:00:39 GMT
References: <2695@m1.cs.man.ac.uk> <1991Jun18.074029.12226@panix.uucp> <64771@bbn.BBN.COM> <677424380@romeo.cs.duke.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology

In article <677424380@romeo.cs.duke.edu> drh@duke.cs.duke.edu (D. Richard Hipp) writes:
>... I need a strcmp that used in conjuction with sort will put
>strings in what I would call "correct" alphabetical order...

As others have observed, you're going to have to write your own, because
there is no universal definition of "correct" alphabetical order.  (For
example, phonebook order != library card-catalog order != dictionary order.)
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