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Subject: Re: how is strnatcmp aka "Interpret numbers while sorting" supposed to sort?

Re: how is strnatcmp aka "Interpret numbers while sorting" supposed to sort?

From: Mike Holden <rockbox_at_mikeholden.org>
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 15:56:14 -0000 (UTC)

Thomas Martitz wrote:
> Thomas Martitz wrote:
>> I've found a simpler solution for this. Trying the code raises the
>> following problem:
>>
>> 00 < 0b < 01 < 1
>>
>> Zeros before except the final zeros are ignored, and the final zero
>> before characters is not ignored. But the leading zeros of numbers are
>> (so that 01 is 1). Obviously 0 sorts before 1.
>
>
> Nautilus has this problem too. I don't know what windows does in this
> case.
>

I thought we'd already established that those 4 files are in the right order?

Windows orders them as below, which is the same as above:
00
0b
01
1
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Received on 2009-03-19

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