Author:  SylvainLS  Posted:  Feb 8, 2022 19:22  Subject:  Re: Fractions  Viewed:  25 times  Topic:  Catalog Requests Cancel Reply

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In Catalog Requests, peregrinator writes:    I'm not sure adding the Unicode fraction characters would be helpful for sorting (as an aside, TIL that there are characters for ⅓ and ⅔!). But I don't see why a 3rd-party app couldn't extract the dimensions from the item title and sort on them - I think I could even write a regex to do it, something like: https://regex101.com/r/Plv6pR/1 Kids these days, they don’t even make their own regexps… *sigh*    Length = first term Width = second term Height = third term Convert to numeric values (e.g. 4 2/3 = 4.67 - being exact here is not necessary), then sort on length, then width, then height (default to zero if not present). Maybe rather default to one, no? I’m not sure there’s parts like that: Bla 1 x 1 x 2/3 Bla 1 x 1 Bla 1 x 1 x 2 but we would want the second one to be, well, the second one.

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Re: Fractions - peregrinator (782)

I'm not sure adding the Unicode fraction characters would be helpful for sorting (as an aside, TIL that there are characters for ⅓ and ⅔!). But I don't see why [...] (28 months ago, Feb 8, 2022, to Catalog Requests)

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Re: Fractions - peregrinator (782)

[...] Yeah, I had forgotten there are a few parts like that, with just "4L" or "12L" or whatever. [...] And I missed ^^^ this case too. Obviously the regex needs some refining. [...] (28 months ago, Feb 8, 2022, to Catalog Requests)

Re: Fractions - hpoort (416)

[...] Like (Part 86996) (Part 3005) (Part 14716) (Part 2453b) disregarding the 'modified' on the first line (what's modified about it anyway?) (28 months ago, Feb 9, 2022, to Catalog Requests)

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