Have you ever tried to sort a set of strings programmatically only to be confused by the output? This usually happens with strings that contain a mixed set of numbers and letters.
David Koelle wrote a solution for this problem in 1997 called the Alphanum Algoritm.
Have you ever run into the following error message in PHP?
Fatal error: out of dynamic memory in yy_create_buffer()
I ran into this not long ago and had a hard time understanding the problem, though the fix is simple. This is a bug in PHP versions prior to 5.2 on BSD based systems.
Short of upgrading PHP to a [...]