> From: Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> Brian Swale wrote:
>>
>> ... 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 results you are experiencing are a result of text sorting, and are
> correct.
Only if you have a computer so unfortunate as to not be able to tell
text from numbers!
> You would get the same result... on contemporary systems
> that have no MS taint whatsoever.
Unless they come from computers made to work like people do! Think
different!
> File and directory names are text
> fields, and may contain many non-numeric characters. Thus, they cannot
> be sorted numerically in any useful/meaningful way.
My turn to be a pedant. I find it extremely useful/meaningful that
Apple Macs can tell the difference between a number and a letter, as
any child can.
> The solution to numeric sorting in text fields is simply to append the
> implicit leading zeros explicitly. "28 29 03 30 31 32 33" will sort
> the
> way you want.
The solution in the Windows world is to change the way you think, so
that you think more like a computer.
The Apple way is to change the way that a computer works, so that it
does things that humans expect, so they don't have to think like a
computer.
:::: Apple's market share does provide us with an accurate reading of
the percentage of reasonable people in our society. -- Roger Ebert ::::
:::: Jan Steinman <http://www.VeggieVanGogh.com> ::::
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