Description

This function computes a locale-dependent sort key, which is an alternative character representation of the string that, when ordered in the C locale (which orders using the underlying bytes directly), will give an equivalent ordering to the original string. It is useful for enhancing algorithms that sort only in the C locale (e.g., the strcmp function in libc) with the ability to be locale-aware.

Usage

Arguments

Details

For more information on ICU's Collator and how to tune it up in stringi, refer to stri_opts_collator.

See also stri_rank for ranking strings with a single character vector, i.e., generating relative sort keys.

Value

The result is a character vector with the same length as str that contains the sort keys. The output is marked as bytes-encoded.

References

Collation - ICU User Guide, http://userguide.icu-project.org/collation

See Also

Other locale_sensitive: %s<%(), about_locale, about_search_boundaries, about_search_coll, stri_compare(), stri_count_boundaries(), stri_duplicated(), stri_enc_detect2(), stri_extract_all_boundaries(), stri_locate_all_boundaries(), stri_opts_collator(), stri_order(), stri_rank(), stri_sort(), stri_split_boundaries(), stri_trans_tolower(), stri_unique(), stri_wrap()

Examples