Re: Sorting file based on variable string

It's interesting to see the solutions people come up with, based to a
very large extent on what they are comfortable with. "When all you
have is a hammer, all your problems start looking like nails" and all
that.

I'm as guilty of this as anyone. But trying to look at this as
objectively as possible, assuming Dennis's "Unixy" solution works (and
I think it does), it seems like the quickest and most straightforward
to me.

By the way, this technique has a name: It's the
decorate-sort-undecorate pattern (or idiom). It's very useful, and
can be applied in various ways in various languages.

John