Bug or Feature? Sorting strings with quotes

[thiagowfx]

Given main.yaml:

# keep-sorted start
- b
- "d"
- c
# keep-sorted end

What should happen? I would have expected "d" to come last:

% cat main.yaml
# keep-sorted start
- b
- c
- "d"
# keep-sorted end

This is what happens instead (v0.6.0):

% keep-sorted main.yaml
% cat main.yaml
# keep-sorted start
- "d"
- b
- c
# keep-sorted end

It's technically correct from a lexical sorting perspective, but is it intended?

Assuming it is intended, is there a workaround to make it consider ASCII characters only? Perhaps with by_regex?

[JeffFaer]

keep-sorted is language agnostic and doesn't really try to understand the syntax of file it's operating in. There's some support for general syntax with block=yes, but even that option wouldn't have changed how this got sorted.

is there a workaround to make it consider ASCII characters only?

Nit: " is an ASCII character ;)

Depending on whether by_regex works for you, this could be an interesting FR: Perhaps we should have an option that tells keep-sorted exactly which characters to consider while sorting.

Perhaps with by_regex?

Have you tried any by_regexs? Assuming these YAML strings are relatively simple (they all match the form - \w+ or - "\w+[\w ]*") I imagine something like by_regex=['\w+[\w ]*'] would work

[thiagowfx]

Nit: " is an ASCII character ;)

aha, indeed, I meant alphanumeric :P

A couple of forms that work as per my original intent:

# keep-sorted start by_regex=\w+
- b
- c
- "d"
# keep-sorted end

# keep-sorted start by_regex=['\w+[\w ]*']
- b
- c
- "d"
# keep-sorted end