asciibetically

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adverb

In an ASCIIbetical way.

“The elements of the array are ordered ASCIIbetically.”

Scrabble 23

Meanings

asciibetically1

adverbasciibetically (not comparable)
  1. not comparableAlternative letter-case form of ASCIIbetically.

ASCIIbetically2

adverbASCIIbetically (not comparable)

alternative asciibetically

  1. informalnot comparablecomputingIn an ASCIIbetical way.

    The elements of the array are ordered ASCIIbetically.

    3 more examples

    Perl’s built-in sorting behavior is as though the elements were compared ASCIIbetically with the cmp operator: […]

    1998, Joseph N. Hall, Randal L. Schwartz, Effective Perl Programming: Writing Better Programs with Perl, Addison Wesley, →ISBN, page 44

    Then, the Help Compiler ASCIIbetically sorts each group according to its number (which can actually be any alphanumeric string, but for sanity’s sake you should stick to 4-digit numbers, incremented by tens, like 0010, 0020, etc.).

    2003, Sean M[ichael] Burke, RTF Pocket Guide, O’Reilly & Associates, Inc., →ISBN, page 96

    If you need to sort text ASCIIbetically, then you should seriously consider running your files through a script that enforces pure printable-ASCII content.

    2016, Jules J. Berman, Data Simplification: Taming Information With Open Source Tools, Morgan Kaufmann, →ISBN, page 57

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