On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 07:14:50PM +1300, Brian Swale wrote:
>
> One of the irritating things about computers that Mr Gateway and his
> minions never had the wit to fix was the handling of numbers in
> ordered lists.
>
> For example, if you make a set of file directories numbered from 1 to
> 33, the MS system cannot keep them in order.
>
> Getting up into the series, they will go 28 29 3 30 31 32 33.
The sorting algorithm looks at the first character of each file and
sorts the list according to that. Then, it takes the 2nd char and sorts
those that had the same 1st char by that value. And so on..
> Note the "3" in the middle of the tens series. And so it goes. I
> wonder if this is why the Olympus file numbering system puts an
> underscore in front?
> _28 _29 _30 etc
Nope, that won't help. Leading 0s will work though:
01
02
03
10
11
12
17
23
32
42
...
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