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Windows Forum / Windows XP / Basics / February 2006file name order/file name sort
In Windows XP, Windows Explorer, when the files are sorted by name, numbers are sorted by value, so that you might have A013 A14 A015 There is supposed to be a fix to the registry. (see www.support.microsoft.com/?id=319827) I made the change to my registry, and it seems to have fixed the numeric sorting problem, but now it treats hyphens as if they aren't there; not as if they are spaces or nulls, but as if they were deleted entirely. Who knows what else this "fix" messes up. Eg., I now get files in the following order: RDH-109 RDH-218 RDH-370 RDH-428 RDHA201 RDHA236 RDH-C530 RDHDBCNT RDH-U94 RDHXWAHF Does anybody know a fix that will end up with the file names in order simply considered as text strings? Thank you It turns out that Excel and Word ignore hyphens when sorting, too. So if I were just working with Office files, it wouldn't be quite so bad. But I'm doing a conversion from a product which uses a normal sort, and trying to compare files. It seems to me that it would have been automatic to have straight ASCII sorting as at least an option. Is this caused by the age discrimination that throws away the experience that would have seen this as soon as it was planned? > In Windows XP, Windows Explorer, when the files are sorted by name, numbers > are sorted by value, so that you might have [quoted text clipped - 24 lines] > > Thank you |
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