in reply to Sorting a File which contains numbers

Watch out: sort sorts normally "in standard string comparison order" which is NOT numerically. In order to sort numerically, you have to use an explicit sort routine.

With your expamle input file, this won't make a difference though, as it sorts the same numerically AND alphabetically.

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