in reply to ASCII Woe

The ASCII codes are in the correct order. If your doing a sort of text that represents negative numbers, you have to do a reverse sort to make the numbers come out in the right order, which also makes "-" come out before "+". ;)

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Re^2: ASCII Woe
by Aristotle (Chancellor) on Mar 03, 2006 at 20:08 UTC

    That’s a nice theory, except then the positive numbers will be missorted largest-to-smallest.

    Makeshifts last the longest.

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      Would you believe "convert to two's complement and sort"?

      I was just pointing out (perhaps too indirectly) that its more complicated that merely getting "+" and "-" in the right order. The direction of sort is differnt for +ve and -ve numbers.
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