Need Help sorting alphabetically.

[Greg Jorgensen]

<eff at my-deja.com> wrote:

> ...but they don't "throw out all other characters".  the original
> code matches his description, your proposed replacement doesn't.

I thought I was in your kill file already. Is it not working?

My proposed solution addresses the original problem as stated:

> > I would like to sort alphabetically (I'm not sure that is the correct
> > term) so that strings of alpha numerics sort alphabetically instead of
> > by ASCII order.

My code does that. It was someone else who proposed throwing out all the
non-alphabetic characters, which to me seemed wrong because the original
question specifically mentioned "alpha NUMERICs."

In any case I was legitimately trying to help, even if I didn't guess that
the question was really about sorting file names that may or may not be
missing leading zeroes in a numeric portion of the name. I wasn't trolling
the newsgroup looking to pick a fight.

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Greg Jorgensen
Deschooling Society
Portland, Oregon, USA
gregj at pobox.com