What is sorting?
Sorting is taking a collection of things and putting them into some specific order. For example, sorting people by age, shoes by size, strings by length, planets by mass, numbers by value.
What techniques are available within the Tcl language?
- lsort — takes a Tcl list argument and returns another list that is the sorted version of the input list. The other arguments determine exactly how the items in the list are to be ordered.
What are other relevant pages on the wiki?
Frequently Asked Questions about sorting
- How can I sort the contents of a file in tcl?