Re: getting a file list in sorted order
Re: getting a file list in sorted order
- Subject: Re: getting a file list in sorted order
- From: Christopher Nebel <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2002 19:35:20 -0700
On Saturday, August 17, 2002, at 09:25 PM, Steven Angier wrote:
The "list folder" command (upon which all Macscript.com Library file
listing
functions is based) returns file names sorted alphabetically.
In fact, it does no such thing. It returns the file names in the order
they appear in the directory entry. For HFS+, this happens to be
alphabetic order (at least for English -- I'm not sure what it does
with non-Roman scripts), but is essentially random for most other disk
formats. Something to be aware of before you try using it on an NFS
server.
--Chris Nebel
AppleScript Engineering
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