Re: Sort Order
Re: Sort Order
- Subject: Re: Sort Order
- From: Christopher Nebel <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2008 15:45:19 -0800
On Jan 8, 2008, at 1:05 PM, Luther Fuller wrote:
This isn't causing a problem at the moment, but I curious ...
I have a folder containing number-named folders in OS X 10.4.11.
The Finder visibly sorts these folders in list view in the order ...
{_B,
1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30,31
,A}
Which is alpha-numeric ordering.
I have an AppleScript that gets a list of these folders sorted by
name.
I can clearly see the folders being processed in the order ...
{1,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,2,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,3,30,31,4,5,6,7,8,9
,_B,A}
which is alphabetic ordering.
Is this an over-sight? Or is there a mysterious reason for this? Is
this a latent bug?
Traditional lexicographic ordering (what you call "alphabetic") is how
AppleScript has always worked, so we haven't changed it. (It's not
wrong, but it is a different set of rules than you want.) However,
there was a "considering" attribute added in Tiger that changes the
traditional ordering to consider numeric sequences the way Finder
does. Try enclosing your sort routine in this:
considering numeric strings
...
end
--Chris Nebel
AppleScript Engineering
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