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I am working on integrating with the Photobucket API and I came across this in their api docs:
"Sort the parameters by name lexographically [sic] (byte ordering, the standard sorting, not natural or case insensitive). If the parameters have the same name, then sort by the value."
What does that mean? How do I sort something lexicographically? byte ordering?
The rest of their docs have been ok so far, but (to me) it seems like this line bears further explanation. Unfortunately there was none to be had.
Anyway, I'm writing the application in Python (it'll eventually become a Django app) in case you want to recommend specific modules that will handle such sorting for me ^_^
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Lexicographical ordering means dictionary order. For ex: In dictionary 'ado' comes after 'adieu' because 'o' comes after 'i' in English alphabetic system. This ordering is not based on length of the string, but on the occurrence of the smallest letter first.
1. 2. in lexicographic order are 123, 132, 213, 231, 312, and 321. Lexicographic order is sometimes called dictionary order.
Sorting a string array in Lexicographical Order (Dictionary Order) using two approaches: By using any sorting technique to sort array elements. By using sort() function present in Arrays class in util package in java.
Approach: The idea is to sort the given array of strings using the inbuilt sort function using the below comparator function. The comparator function used to check if any string occurs as a substring in another string using compare() function in C++ then, it should arrange them in decreasing order of their length.
I think that here lexicographic is a "alias" for ascii sort?
Lexicographic Natural z1.doc z1.doc z10.doc z2.doc z100.doc z3.doc z101.doc z4.doc z102.doc z5.doc z11.doc z6.doc z12.doc z7.doc z13.doc z8.doc z14.doc z9.doc z15.doc z10.doc z16.doc z11.doc z17.doc z12.doc z18.doc z13.doc z19.doc z14.doc z2.doc z15.doc z20.doc z16.doc z3.doc z17.doc z4.doc z18.doc z5.doc z19.doc z6.doc z20.doc z7.doc z100.doc z8.doc z101.doc z9.doc z102.doc
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The word should be "lexicographic"
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Lexicographic
Dictionary order. Using the letters as they appear in the strings.
As they suggest, don't fold upper- and lower-case together. Just use the Python built-in list.sort() method.
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