Sorting of numbers or strings.

[Mars]

I don't know whether the inputs are all numbers or all strings...
if they are numbers, they are sorted as numbers,
if they are strings, they are sorted as strings....


e.g.

input : 9 12 2 4
output : 2 4 9 12

input : orange Banana
ouput : Banana orange



How can I do so??

 

[CBFalconer]

I don't know whether the inputs are all numbers or all strings...
if they are numbers, they are sorted as numbers,
if they are strings, they are sorted as strings....

e.g.

input : 9 12 2 4
output : 2 4 9 12

input : orange Banana
ouput : Banana orange

How can I do so??

What are you going to do with:

input : 9 orange 12 2 banana 4

 

[Walter Roberson]

:I don't know whether the inputs are all numbers or all strings...
:if they are numbers, they are sorted as numbers,
:if they are strings, they are sorted as strings....

Which part are you asking for assistance on? Reading values?
Deciding whether they are all numeric? Sorting?

 

[Eric Sosman]

I don't know whether the inputs are all numbers or all strings...
if they are numbers, they are sorted as numbers,
if they are strings, they are sorted as strings....


e.g.

input : 9 12 2 4
output : 2 4 9 12

input : orange Banana
ouput : Banana orange

You might find

http://sourcefrog.net/projects/natsort/

helpful. (Yes, that's "frog," not "forge.") Last
time I looked, the C implementation had several
occurrences of the "pass a plain `char' to a <ctype.h>
function" error, but those are easily repaired.