[Savannah-hackers] [ 101899 ] Filelist sorting problems

[nobody]

Support Request #101899, was updated on Tue 03/04/03 at 12:11
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Status: Closed
Priority: 5
Summary: Filelist sorting problems

By: yeupou
Date: Tue 03/04/03 at 13:31
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My previous post is in fact uncorrect. 
 
You can easily sort numerically with perl, but it's slow, and it would 
require to guess wich part of a package name should be sorted 
numerically. Finally, it's would be very very slow: the cost is too 
much, isn't it? 
 
(And I do not even now if it's possible with PHP). 

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By: yeupou
Date: Tue 03/04/03 at 13:09
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As far I know, with most computers, an ordered list consider 10 
lower than 9. Because it only read the first character. 
 
Asking the system to calculate the real value of each number 
would surely overload any system existing if you have an 
important number of files. That probably why I never seen any 
ordered listing doing these calculations. 
 
There is an easy work around: type 01 instead of 1 - even 001 if 
you think you'll reach 100. 
 

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