Does anyone know of a library for encoding a number of primitive types (like integers, floats, strings, etc) into a string but preserving the lexicographical order of the types? Ideally, I'm looki...

Are strings compared lexicographical when using the overriden bool operator<(const std::string & rhs) operator? In example: std::string str1 = "aabbcc" std::string str2 = "bbaacc" (str1 &l...

I need to sort file names as follows: 1.log, 2.log, 10.log But when I use OrderBy(fn => fn) it will sort them as: 1.log, 10.log, 2.log I obviously know that this could be done by writing another ...

I'm looking for a way to serialize floating points so that in their serialized form a lexicographical comparison is the same as a floating point comparison. I think it is possible by storing it in ...

For reasons I completely disagree with but "The Powers (of Anti-Usability) That Be" continue to decree despite my objections, I have a sorting routine which does basic strcmp() compares to sort by ...