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.FN sort
.TL
sort: Sort in Ascending Numeric or Alphabetic Order
.CS
sort(data)
.PP
.AG data
vector.
.RT
vector with its data sorted in ascending order.  Character data
is sorted in lexicographic order.
.PP
The result is a vector, even if `data' was a structure
(matrix, time-series).
.PP
The ordering of character data
depends on the character code.  For ASCII code, digits
precede upper-case letters, which precede lower-case letters. The
position of other characters is unintuitive.
.KW basic*
.KW sorting
.KW math
.WR
