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Old March 28th 16, 09:26 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support
R.Wieser
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Default Explorer filename sorting - disable ignoring of the hyphen ("-") char ?

VanguardLH,

In text strings, there is no such thing as a number,
even less so a negative number.


You and I know (want) that, MS is of a fully other idea. Hence the
NoStrCmpLogical registry setting (to disable MS'es idea of sorting on values
embeded in filenames).

If you want to include some signed numbers (interpreted by parsing
text strings) then ALL numerical substrings must be signed.


You misunderstood: I do not want to sort on a numeric value embedded in
filenames, I just want the sorting process to stop ignoring certain
characters in filenames.

With NoStrCmpLogical, there is no such thing as a
number in a text string; i.e., sorting is ASCII order


You are the second person doing this: Ignoring the facts infront of you (the
provided filename list) which shows nothing of the sort. DON'T DO THAT.
Please! It feels incredibly rude.

.... still waiting for a (possible) method to switch to pure ASCII/binary
sorting.

Regards,
Rudy Wieser



-- Origional message:
VanguardLH schreef in berichtnieuws
...
A shorter answer:

If you want to include some signed numbers (interpreted by parsing text
strings) then ALL numerical substrings must be signed. You are adding
"-" to represent negative numerical values. So use "+" for all the
positive numerical strings.




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