Saturday, March 01, 2008

Numerical Order?



I must be missing something obvious!

I have my files arranged by "Name." As far as I know, that means they should be in alpha/numeric order by the name of the file, but I have two files that start with "2002" in between two files that start with "2007". I even edited the file names to be sure they were all "0" (number) and not "O" (letter). The order remains the same.

How can that happen?

2 comments:

Unknown said...

Could it be because the number 200703 is smaller than the number 20020316? maybe it would be fixed if there was a space or something between the "200203" and the "16"?

C said...

I believe you are right! Thanks!

I don't think Windows has always done it that way. Wonder if there is a setting buried somewhere that determines whether it sorts using alpha/numerical sort order or ordinal sort order?