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ASCIIbetically en · ADV

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Etymology

From ASCIIbetical + -ly.

Meanings

1. (informal, not-comparable) In an ASCIIbetical way.
   • If you need to sort text ASCIIbetically, then you should seriously consider running your files through a script that enforces pure printable-ASCII content. 2016, Jules J. Berman, Data Simplification: Taming Information With Open Source Tools, Morgan Kaufmann, →ISBN, page 57:
   • Perl’s built-in sorting behavior is as though the elements were compared ASCIIbetically with the cmp operator: […] 1998, Joseph N. Hall, Randal L. Schwartz, Effective Perl Programming: Writing Better Programs with Perl, Addison Wesley, →ISBN, page 44:
   • The elements of the array are ordered ASCIIbetically.
   • Then, the Help Compiler ASCIIbetically sorts each group according to its number (which can actually be any alphanumeric string, but for sanity’s sake you should stick to 4-digit numbers, incremented by tens, like 0010, 0020, etc.). 2003, Sean M[ichael] Burke, RTF Pocket Guide, O’Reilly & Associates, Inc., →ISBN, page 96:

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