in reply to Re^3: sorting dates in YYYYMMDD format
in thread sorting dates in YYYYMMDD format
Yes, but the real strings that have to be sorted may not be that easy, containing e.g. rubbish at start, or some punctuation, or - worse - be of different, yet regexpable format. (I don't know for sure, just a thought).
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