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#14 alphabetical order explanation added
daverick Jul 15, 2018
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Merge pull request #16 from loriking/gh-pages
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"max('codebar','is','great')"
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"You weren't expected this result? On `string` the default order is the alphabetical order like in a normal dictionnary. In the alphabetical order `'codebar'` is before `'great'` which is before `'is'`. That's why `'is'` is the *bigger* one.\n",
"Play with the following examples to see how uppercase letter and special characters are ordered."
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"max('space','space ')"
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"max('dot','dot.')"
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"max('dot and space ','dot and space.')"
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"max('U','u')"
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"max('o','ö')"
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"The thing to remember here is that there `string` can be ordered. "
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