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ASCIIbetically
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English
Alternative forms
en asciibetically
Etymology
From en ASCIIbetical -ly adverbial.
Pronunciation
en en-uk-asciibetically.ogg UK
Adverb
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en computing informal In an ASCIIbetical way.
en The elements of the array are ordered ASCIIbetically.
en w:Joseph N. Hall; w:Randal L. Schwartz Effective Perl Programming: Writing Better Programs with Perl w:Addison Wesley 1998 44 0-201-41975-0 Perl’s built-in sorting behavior is as though the elements were compared ASCIIbetically with the cmp operator:
en Sean M[ichael] Burke RTF Pocket Guide O’Reilly & Associates, Inc. 2003 96 0-596-00475-3 Then, the Help Compiler ASCIIbetically sorts each group according to its number (which can actually be any alphanumeric string, but for sanity’s sake you should stick to 4-digit numbers, incremented by tens, like 0010, 0020, etc.).
en Jules J. Berman Data Simplification: Taming Information With Open Source Tools Morgan Kaufmann 2016 57 978-0-12-803781-2 If you need to sort text ASCIIbetically, then you should seriously consider running your files through a script that enforces pure printable-ASCII content.