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asort: a pedestrian alphanumeric string sorter

by us

21 Mar 2005 (Updated 13 Dec 2006)

numerically sorts an array or cell array of strings.

File Information
Description	ASORT sorts an array or cell array of alphanumeric strings numerically rather than in ascii dictionary order strings are divided into three different categories, which are returned in separate cells - numerically sorted strings that contain only one readable number - ascii dictionary order sorted strings that contain more than one readable or invalid numbers - ascii dictionary order sorted strings that contain no numbers see > help asort for explanations and options this sorter can be used, for instance, to sort files with numerical extensions, eg, f.1 f.2 f.3 f.10 f.21 look at the accompanying published m-file for a few examples
MATLAB release	MATLAB 7.0.1 (R14SP1)
Other requirements	good spirits
Zip File Content
HTML Files	html/asdemo.html
Other Files	asort.m, asdemo.m

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Everyone's Tags	alphanumeric, ascii, dictionary, numerical, order, sort
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Comments and Ratings (2)
22 Mar 2005	urs (us) schwarz	due to a severe misunderstanding, a premature version was posted! i sincerely apologize. the ver tag must be 21-Mar-2005 17:33:11
20 Nov 2008	Jonathan Young	Works well. Thank you.

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Updates
23 Mar 2005	user requested option and another input error check
28 Mar 2005	added options to remove spaces and/or string-templates prior to processing; ver tag is 26-Mar-2005 17:54:54
28 Mar 2005	added more user requested options; ver tag is 28-Mar-2005 17:41:59
30 Mar 2005	check anomalous cases; ver tag is 30-Mar-2005 11:57:07
28 Nov 2005	the struct now returns index lists for each type of sorted input: anr/aix, srn/six, str/tix, such that anr=INP(aix), snr=INP(six), str=INP(tix); version tag 25-Nov-2005 14:16:47
28 Nov 2005	version tag 25-Nov-2005 20:46:56
29 Nov 2005	although the history reflects the update, the zip file is still not correct?! version tag 25-Nov-2005 20:46:56
13 Dec 2006	a previous revision 12/12/05 apparently never made it online (thanks to tom muylle for stumbling onto this omission!); the resubmission has the ver tag 13-Dec-2006 18:29:17

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