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Created October 27, 2011 23:59
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Sort an array of strings by their first word and then their first number
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sort_array_of_strings.rb
%w/ foo11 foo2 3foo foo4 bar2 foo1 bar99-a /.sort do |a,b|
[a[/[[:alpha:]]+/],a[/[[:digit:]]+/]] <=>
[b[/[[:alpha:]]+/],b[/[[:digit:]]+/]]
end
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