Hello,

thanks for the interest in this.  I wrote it ages ago and have 
completely forgotten about it.

There is a newer version available here...
http://rubyforge.org/projects/natcmp/

Patrick May wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Natural Order String Comparison is a useful algorithm:
> 
>     http://sourcefrog.net/projects/natsort/
> 
> Alan Davies wrote an implementation of the algorithm in ruby, and it is 
> useful:
> 
>     http://sourcefrog.net/projects/natsort/natcmp.rb
> 
> I think it would be nice if String always had this method.  I hope there 
> aren't license conflicts.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Patrick
> 
> 
>