sort(charArray) doesn't work

[Chris Cain]

On Wednesday, 13 November 2013 at 11:03:40 UTC, Andrea Fontana 
wrote:
> I'm not sure why sort(vars) doesn't work...

Basically, char[] is a (mutable) string. Since strings in D are 
treated as UTF, hasLength!(char[]) is actually false. Each 
"character" can actually be multiple bytes long, so it sort of 
makes sense. If you were to allow sorting of strings, then 
characters would be broken apart in the sorting process... so it 
doesn't do what you would expect it to do in those cases.

So, the way around it is to just treat it as numbers (using 
std.string.representation, as bearophile pointed out) and sort it 
that way.