Re: Solution [was Re: New Quiz: "What does this code do?" (3-Jan-2006)]

On Sun, Jan 08, 2006 at 12:31:59AM -0500, Ron Isaacson wrote:

>     for DIRVAR in ${DIRVARS[*]}; do

> One enhancement would be to automatically sort the DIRVARS list so the
> longest paths are at the front, in case one is a prefix of another.
> Sadly though, bash doesn't expose a sort builtin. If there were a
> bash-qotw list, I might propose implementing various sort algorithms
> using only shell builtins. :-)

Though the zsh-qotw list might be a little bored (well, for the simple
case anyway):

  for DIRVAR in ${(O)DIRVARS}; do

I suspect the zsh lists might have a bit of fun implementing different
algorithms though.  If you ever get fed up with people telling you that
Perl looks like line noise, have a look at some of the wonderful
solutions delivered on the zsh lists.

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