Meanings
asciibetically1
- not comparableAlternative letter-case form of ASCIIbetically.
ASCIIbetically2
alternative asciibetically
- informalnot comparablecomputingIn an ASCIIbetical way.
The elements of the array are ordered ASCIIbetically.
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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 44Then, 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 96If 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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