The following several functions allow intelligent sorting city report fields by column. More...

Public Attributes
union {
float numeric_value

char * string_value

}	val

bool	is_numeric

Detailed Description

The following several functions allow intelligent sorting city report fields by column.

This doesn't necessarily do the right thing, but it's better than sorting alphabetically.

The GUI gives us two values to compare (as strings). We try to split them into an array of numeric and string fields, then we compare lexicographically. Two numeric fields are compared in the obvious way, two character fields are compared alphabetically. Arbitrarily, a numeric field is sorted before a character field (for "justification" note that numbers are before letters in the ASCII table).

Definition at line 958 of file view_cities_data.cpp.