Can someone explain what specifically needs to be done in exercise 5.17, what does it mean to sort within line, its field?
Can someone explain what specifically needs to be done in exercise 5.17, what does
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Can someone explain what specifically needs to be done in exercise 5.17, what does it mean to sort within line, its field?
I don’t have my copy of K&R here. I think it means this
Suppose the original file has
It is already sorted by the 1st field; if you want to sort it by the 2nd field (the name) the result would be
Or you can sort by date (the 3rd field)