When you click on it, it displays posts in semi-chronological order. A few in the right order, then a post from a different day jumps in, then back to normal order. What’s the deal? Is the sorting algorithm just screwy?
On a related note, has anyone ever tried to sort results from an IMNA event by swim (or bike, or run) overall rank? After the DNFs, you get the guy with the fastest swim (rank 1), then rank 10, 100, 1000, 1001-1009, 101, 1010-1019, 102, etc, etc. It’s actually pretty funny.
-C
I always credit that to too many arts majors, not enough programmers.
This is an artifact of Unix.
The sort algorithm is alphanumeric and not numeric. Hence, 11111 comes before 2, 10101 comes before 200, et cetera.
Every damn language hence has adopted the same sorting method. The solution being, one should write their own sorting code (or use Perl or IDL).
I’ve never had any sorting issues using the IMNA results widget. Are you sorting an ASCII file yourself? If so and using Unix/SunOS/Linux/etc., use the -n switch of the sort command (numeric sort).
No, that’s what the results do if you sort by place. If you sort by time it does the swim times a little out of order as well (doesn’t handle the sub-1 hr and over 1-hr in the correct order).
no, this is an artifact of programmers that don’t know the difference between sorting in a numerical or alphabetical way
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Hey! I have a degree in art.