Cursed code-formatter

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It fends of job acceptance letters, too

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Sorting a string alphabetically can provide insights into the statistical usage of characters, perhaps

lets you compare how many times "z" appears in a language compared to "y"

for example

though there's better ways to do that

by... y'know... counting the characters

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If I wanted to do that, I'd just have it output the number of each character kekw

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indeed. Still, makes the sorter not 100% useless

just like 99%

Possibly it could be somewhat useful for font analysys. though I fail to see a specific use case

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Yea

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but it'd make me cEhir and I gotta say, that's a pretty cool name

i'd turn you into aefglstu

OH actually I do have a pseudo-practical application @restive crown - I did at some point write one of those sorters in order to test a GUI. So I suppose it can be useful for testing purposes.

...then again, most things can be useful for testing purposes.

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Yep

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I've actually turned it into a command line application

With flags and everything

https://github.com/Renjian-buchai/string-sort

I think the next feature I should add is a -f -o to read from a file and output it to a file

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another flag to sort the file's name alphabetically too

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That one's probably difficult

Wait

-c to make it a copy, without -c it sorts the text in place

I think I can create a new file with the sorted name, then delete the old file?

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should be absolutely doable

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I can name this the most advanced string sorter kekw

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now all you need is a string sorter to actually sort the name of the file. I wonder if anyone's written something like that

we'd have a great use case for it here

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That one might be complicated

Because __FILE__ only works for the file you write it in

i.e. it only works for src.cc

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you could of course also just sort the name of the file's copy, assuming the c flag is given

this would also mean that you don't have to attach some arbitrary file extension to avoid name conflict with the source file

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Instead, I think I could simply sort the entire file name, including the extension

Unless the file is in alphabetical order already, e.g. .git, it'll probably not conflict

but .git is a folder, so

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Now I'm wondering whether it would be possible to sort an entire folder

I wonder how that's manifest. Sort all the characters into one file? sort each file but leave the files themselves be?

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It'd most likely be the same as sorting all the files in the folder individually