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I know the annoyance you're talking about, but I think you're better off wrapping sort(1) with something translates from column names to indexes. Among the reas
by sigil 9y ago
I know the annoyance you're talking about, but I think you're better off wrapping sort(1) with something translates from column names to indexes. Among the reasons: sortcsv buffers all input into memory [1], while sort(1) uses a divide-and-conquer merge sort to avoid this.
[1] https://github.com/johnweldon/sortcsv/blob/55818bd8e5f9feeccc242b78acc3f23fd0613b44/main.go#L68 https://github.com/johnweldon/sortcsv/blob/55818bd8e5f9feecc...
- johnweldon 9y agoThat's a good point. I may consider a stand alone utility to wrap this[1] code that converts names to indexes. [1] https://github.com/johnweldon/sortcsv/blob/master/main.go#L104-L118 https://github.com/johnweldon/sortcsv/blob/master/main.go#L1...