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  #1  
Old March 27th 16, 09:07 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support
R.Wieser
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Default Explorer filename sorting - disable ignoring of the hyphen ("-") char ?

Hello All,

My previous subject "Explorer filename sorting problem - NoStrCmpLogical
already present" has evolved into a much simpler one: How do I get XP's
explorer (but the "dir" command too!) to stop ignoring the minus sign inside
filenames

60.00.00.32.dds
60.00.00.32.msh
60.00.00.32.nif
60.00.32.32.dds
60.00.-32.32.dds
60.00.32.32.msh
60.00.-32.32.msh
60.00.32.32.nif
60.00.-32.32.nif

the reason why the above is "sorted" as it is -- with the third column
showing an interleaved "33" and "-32" -- is because the minus sign is
regarded as a hyphen (a word-coupling character) and ignored. The above
list than translates to:

60.00.00.32.dds
60.00.00.32.msh
60.00.00.32.nif
60.00.32.32.dds
60.00.32.32.dds
60.00.32.32.msh
60.00.32.32.msh
60.00.32.32.nif
60.00.32.32.nif

.... which makes (some sort of) sense.

But as those "-" characters inthge first list are *NOT* hypens (but
minus-signs) that second list isn't reflecting the meaning of the filenames
contents. :-(

tl;dr:
How do I get XP's explorer (and "dir" command too) to stop ignoring the
minus sign inside filenames.

Or more in general: How do I stop it from treating *any* character
specially, and just sort all of them on their binary value.

Regards,
Rudy Wieser



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Old March 27th 16, 11:06 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support
VanguardLH[_2_]
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Default Explorer filename sorting - disable ignoring of the hyphen ("-") char ?

R.Wieser wrote:

My previous subject "Explorer filename sorting problem - NoStrCmpLogical
already present" has evolved into a much simpler one: How do I get XP's
explorer (but the "dir" command too!) to stop ignoring the minus sign inside
filenames

60.00.00.32.dds
60.00.00.32.msh
60.00.00.32.nif
60.00.32.32.dds
60.00.-32.32.dds
60.00.32.32.msh
60.00.-32.32.msh
60.00.32.32.nif
60.00.-32.32.nif

the reason why the above is "sorted" as it is -- with the third column
showing an interleaved "33" and "-32" -- is because the minus sign is
regarded as a hyphen (a word-coupling character) and ignored. The above
list than translates to:

60.00.00.32.dds
60.00.00.32.msh
60.00.00.32.nif
60.00.32.32.dds
60.00.32.32.dds
60.00.32.32.msh
60.00.32.32.msh
60.00.32.32.nif
60.00.32.32.nif

... which makes (some sort of) sense.

But as those "-" characters inthge first list are *NOT* hypens (but
minus-signs) that second list isn't reflecting the meaning of the filenames
contents. :-(

tl;dr:
How do I get XP's explorer (and "dir" command too) to stop ignoring the
minus sign inside filenames.

Or more in general: How do I stop it from treating *any* character
specially, and just sort all of them on their binary value.

Regards,
Rudy Wieser


In text strings, there is no such thing as a number, even less so a
negative number. With NoStrCmpLogical, there is no such thing as a
number in a text string; i.e., sorting is ASCII order. The smart
ordering would interpret a numerical *character* (or contiguous
substring of them) as having a numerical value; however, I doubt smart
ordering considers any scaling prefixes (+ or -) as numerical modifiers
but just simple ASCII (alphabetic) characters. That a number or series
of them are in a string won't be known until the + or - have already
been passed over.

How would a parser looking at a text string discern a subtring of
characters represented a number? By trigging on the first instance of a
numerical character. If it triggered its parsing to include the + and -
characters, what would it do with "abc--def" versus "abc-0-def"?
Perhaps it could require that a + or - be immediately followed by a
numerical character to include the + or - in the numerical value but
what would it do with "abc-4+5-def"?

You see them and want them to be signed numbers. Somehow parsing has to
determine the same thing. A boundary has to be detected to determine
when there is a substring that could be interpreted as a number. A
trailing hyphen after non-numerical characters won't trigger that the
next character must be a numerical character. Not until the 3 is
reached during parsing would it be known that the prior hyphen meant a
negative number was in the string; however, that would require the
parser to move backward after finding the first numerical character.
That's doable in code but probably not present in the filename parser.
Most parsers don't like to or cannot move backward (unless they provide
a buffer, like a variable, to track backwards).

Do it yourself. Take a piece of paper with a cutout the size of just 1
character. Start moving the hole across a long string. When do you
know that there is an ASCII character that could represent a number?
The first time you hit a character in the range of "0" to "9". You have
already passed any hyphen or plus character before you can switch to an
interpretation of numerical value as a substring. Parsing usually just
moves forward.

If you want to emulate numerical ordering based on substrings within a
text string then make sure to use characters in the same columnar
position that will effect that ordering. + (43) sorts before - (45).
Stop using non-signed numerical strings to represent a positive value.
If some substrings are going to be interpreted as numerical then ALL
substrings must be signed. +32 will sort before -32. If you don't want
to show a + character for positive values then use a space (so the
numbers align in the same column); however, adding spaces into filenames
runs into other parsing problems, like you forgetting to enclosed a
filename with spaces by using double-quotes. Alas, if you want sorting
to be in signed numerical order with negative values listed before
positive values, this trick won't work. You will need to use a
substitute character for + that sorts after -, like = (61) or ~ (126).
  #3  
Old March 27th 16, 11:15 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support
VanguardLH[_2_]
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Default Explorer filename sorting - disable ignoring of the hyphen ("-") char ?

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.
  #4  
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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Old March 28th 16, 10:27 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support
VanguardLH[_2_]
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Default Explorer filename sorting - disable ignoring of the hyphen ("-") char ?

R.Wieser wrote:

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.


You said:

with the third column showing an interleaved "33" and "-32"

yet none of your examples has a "33" substring. I also did not get what
you meant by "translated" since it looked like you were trying to show
what sorting order would get used for the prior examples of filenames
(where none had "33" in them). Yet the translated list has duplicate
filenames which are not allowed within a folder. No "33" examples and
not sure what the 2nd list was supposed to convey.

Was your 1st list supposed to exemplify the resultant sort order of the
filenames shown by Windows Explorer? Or was the 2nd "translated" list
what you see for sort order? Which entries were supposed to contain the
"33" substring?

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.


Who else (up to the time of this reply) has participated in THIS
discussion? I only see you and I in *this* discussion. Um, just *who*
was it that started TWO DISCONNECTED threads on the same topic? Oh
yeah, that was you.

If you start multiple disconnected discussions on the same subject,
don't expect others to aggregate them all together. With multiple
threads, expect a different set of respondents in each. If you want to
keep the discussions together then don't start separate threads. If you
demand that respondents rebuild your threads into one to gather up all
the disconnected posts then I can easily step aside and let you glean a
solution from those numerous respondents you have received so far.

In fact, I didn't even see your prior nearly-the-same thread. It got
flagged as Ignored by my kill filters and I use a default view that
hides Ignored-flagged threads. I hide them rather than delete them. I
reviewed my kill filters to find one of them has incorrect regex looking
for political posts: it was supposed to look for "pres(ident(ial))
(elect)" but I had a wildcard in there that resulted in matching on
"present" which was in your Subject. However, even after I fix my rule,
I still won't go collating all posts made within the same day or within
the same week made by the same poster. I pick a thread and respond to
that one.

I'm not the one that chopped the discussion into separate pieces with
multiple threads.
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Old March 28th 16, 10:54 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support
VanguardLH[_2_]
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Default Explorer filename sorting - disable ignoring of the hyphen ("-") char ?

I did not know what you were trying to represent with your "translated"
list of filenames and there were no example filenames containing "33".

Using only your 1st list of filenames, which we

60.00.00.32.dds
60.00.00.32.msh
60.00.00.32.nif
60.00.32.32.dds
60.00.-32.32.dds
60.00.32.32.msh
60.00.-32.32.msh
60.00.32.32.nif
60.00.-32.32.nif

I put those into a file (input.txt) and ran it through the 'sort'
program by running at the command line:

sort input.txt /o output.txt

The sorted output looked like:

60.00.-32.32.dds
60.00.-32.32.msh
60.00.-32.32.nif
60.00.00.32.dds
60.00.00.32.msh
60.00.00.32.nif
60.00.32.32.dds
60.00.32.32.msh
60.00.32.32.nif
^
|__ differentiates starting here (col 7)

Is this 2nd list what you expected for sort order for the filenames
shown in Windows Explorer? This is a simple columnar sort, so at
character position #7, the output sort order is due to ASCII order of:

"-" is before "0"
"0" is is before "3"

I think you mentioned something about extension grouping in your other
thread. Perhaps you have Windows Explorer configured to sort by
filetype rather than by filename. Make sure Windows Explorer is
configured to sort by Name and not by Type.

Did sorting work when you used ALL signed numerical values (+ for
positive values, - for negative values) instead of just adding a hyphen
to the negative numerical values? With the same column of values all
signed so the input looked like:

60.00.+00.32.dds
60.00.+00.32.msh
60.00.+00.32.nif
60.00.+32.32.dds
60.00.-32.32.dds
60.00.+32.32.msh
60.00.-32.32.msh
60.00.+32.32.nif
60.00.-32.32.nif

the 'sort' program produced an output list of:

60.00.-32.32.dds
60.00.-32.32.msh
60.00.-32.32.nif
60.00.+00.32.dds
60.00.+00.32.msh
60.00.+00.32.nif
60.00.+32.32.dds
60.00.+32.32.msh
60.00.+32.32.nif

This has all the negative values listed before the zero values before
the positive values (columns 7-9, inclusive)

Alas, I'm not at a Windows XP machine right now to see if Windows
Explorer will sort in the same order as the 'sort' program.
  #7  
Old March 28th 16, 01:18 PM 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,

I think you are to smart to get caught by a simple typo, or not being able
to find the difference between a "translated" table, its origional and to
correlate it to the explanation given in between them.

You caught me fully off-guard by making your "sorting is ASCII order"
remark -- something the origional list showed to be untrue and I therefore
have no idea why you did say that.

If you need any other info to be able to help me find a solution to the
sorting problem I have I'm more than willing to oblige.

Regards,
Rudy Wieser


-- Origional mesage:
VanguardLH schreef in berichtnieuws
...
R.Wieser wrote:

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.


You said:

with the third column showing an interleaved "33" and "-32"

yet none of your examples has a "33" substring. I also did not get what
you meant by "translated" since it looked like you were trying to show
what sorting order would get used for the prior examples of filenames
(where none had "33" in them). Yet the translated list has duplicate
filenames which are not allowed within a folder. No "33" examples and
not sure what the 2nd list was supposed to convey.

Was your 1st list supposed to exemplify the resultant sort order of the
filenames shown by Windows Explorer? Or was the 2nd "translated" list
what you see for sort order? Which entries were supposed to contain the
"33" substring?

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.


Who else (up to the time of this reply) has participated in THIS
discussion? I only see you and I in *this* discussion. Um, just *who*
was it that started TWO DISCONNECTED threads on the same topic? Oh
yeah, that was you.

If you start multiple disconnected discussions on the same subject,
don't expect others to aggregate them all together. With multiple
threads, expect a different set of respondents in each. If you want to
keep the discussions together then don't start separate threads. If you
demand that respondents rebuild your threads into one to gather up all
the disconnected posts then I can easily step aside and let you glean a
solution from those numerous respondents you have received so far.

In fact, I didn't even see your prior nearly-the-same thread. It got
flagged as Ignored by my kill filters and I use a default view that
hides Ignored-flagged threads. I hide them rather than delete them. I
reviewed my kill filters to find one of them has incorrect regex looking
for political posts: it was supposed to look for "pres(ident(ial))
(elect)" but I had a wildcard in there that resulted in matching on
"present" which was in your Subject. However, even after I fix my rule,
I still won't go collating all posts made within the same day or within
the same week made by the same poster. I pick a thread and respond to
that one.

I'm not the one that chopped the discussion into separate pieces with
multiple threads.



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Old March 28th 16, 01:57 PM 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,

Is this 2nd list what you expected for sort order for the
filenames shown in Windows Explorer?


Yes. Or any sorting method where all the same symbols are grouped together
(preferrably in 0...9 and a...z order ofcourse). I would not even too much
mind if the group with the minus signs would appear *after* all the digits
(mind you, sorting a list containing "+", "-" and digit symbols the ASCII
way would not really be intuitive either. :-) )

Perhaps you have Windows Explorer configured to sort by
filetype rather than by filename.


Same kind of thought here. I've had Explorer open in details view and
removed all but the filename column and refreshed. Nothing changed to the
sorted order of the filenames.

Did sorting work when you used ALL signed numerical values
(+ for positive values, - for negative values) instead of just adding
a hyphen to the negative numerical values?


Yes, but not for the good reason: "-32" comes, ASCII wise, after "+32". But
if we (again) ignore the hypen it still stays true: "30" comes, ASCII wise,
after "+30"

As a test I changed one of the "+00" values (of the "+32"/"-32" column) into
"000". File Explorer than shows the values starting with the "+" symbol
first, than the "000", and only than the "-32" values -- which, when you
disregard the minus signs, is logical order. However, if I than change one
of the other "+00" combinations to "-00" (its value doesn't change) than it
gets put between the last "+32" but before the "000" (same as "dir /one"
does by the way).

Regards,
Rudy Wieser


-- Origional message:
VanguardLH schreef in berichtnieuws
...
I did not know what you were trying to represent with your "translated"
list of filenames and there were no example filenames containing "33".

Using only your 1st list of filenames, which we

60.00.00.32.dds
60.00.00.32.msh
60.00.00.32.nif
60.00.32.32.dds
60.00.-32.32.dds
60.00.32.32.msh
60.00.-32.32.msh
60.00.32.32.nif
60.00.-32.32.nif

I put those into a file (input.txt) and ran it through the 'sort'
program by running at the command line:

sort input.txt /o output.txt

The sorted output looked like:

60.00.-32.32.dds
60.00.-32.32.msh
60.00.-32.32.nif
60.00.00.32.dds
60.00.00.32.msh
60.00.00.32.nif
60.00.32.32.dds
60.00.32.32.msh
60.00.32.32.nif
^
|__ differentiates starting here (col 7)

Is this 2nd list what you expected for sort order for the filenames
shown in Windows Explorer? This is a simple columnar sort, so at
character position #7, the output sort order is due to ASCII order of:

"-" is before "0"
"0" is is before "3"

I think you mentioned something about extension grouping in your other
thread. Perhaps you have Windows Explorer configured to sort by
filetype rather than by filename. Make sure Windows Explorer is
configured to sort by Name and not by Type.

Did sorting work when you used ALL signed numerical values (+ for
positive values, - for negative values) instead of just adding a hyphen
to the negative numerical values? With the same column of values all
signed so the input looked like:

60.00.+00.32.dds
60.00.+00.32.msh
60.00.+00.32.nif
60.00.+32.32.dds
60.00.-32.32.dds
60.00.+32.32.msh
60.00.-32.32.msh
60.00.+32.32.nif
60.00.-32.32.nif

the 'sort' program produced an output list of:

60.00.-32.32.dds
60.00.-32.32.msh
60.00.-32.32.nif
60.00.+00.32.dds
60.00.+00.32.msh
60.00.+00.32.nif
60.00.+32.32.dds
60.00.+32.32.msh
60.00.+32.32.nif

This has all the negative values listed before the zero values before
the positive values (columns 7-9, inclusive)

Alas, I'm not at a Windows XP machine right now to see if Windows
Explorer will sort in the same order as the 'sort' program.




  #9  
Old March 28th 16, 09:21 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support
VanguardLH[_2_]
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Default Explorer filename sorting - disable ignoring of the hyphen ("-") char ?

R.Wieser wrote:

My previous subject "Explorer filename sorting problem - NoStrCmpLogical
already present" has evolved into a much simpler one: How do I get XP's
explorer (but the "dir" command too!) to stop ignoring the minus sign inside
filenames

60.00.00.32.dds
60.00.00.32.msh
60.00.00.32.nif
60.00.32.32.dds
60.00.-32.32.dds
60.00.32.32.msh
60.00.-32.32.msh
60.00.32.32.nif
60.00.-32.32.nif

the reason why the above is "sorted" as it is -- with the third column
showing an interleaved "33" and "-32" -- is because the minus sign is
regarded as a hyphen (a word-coupling character) and ignored. The above
list than translates to:

60.00.00.32.dds
60.00.00.32.msh
60.00.00.32.nif
60.00.32.32.dds
60.00.32.32.dds
60.00.32.32.msh
60.00.32.32.msh
60.00.32.32.nif
60.00.32.32.nif

... which makes (some sort of) sense.

But as those "-" characters inthge first list are *NOT* hypens (but
minus-signs) that second list isn't reflecting the meaning of the filenames
contents. :-(

tl;dr:
How do I get XP's explorer (and "dir" command too) to stop ignoring the
minus sign inside filenames.

Or more in general: How do I stop it from treating *any* character
specially, and just sort all of them on their binary value.


Had some more time to play. Yep, Microsoft handles the hyphen a bit
weird, like they ignore it. They are doing something goofy regarding
non-alphanumeric characters.

What I did was to replace the hyphen with a different non-alphanumeric
character, like tilde, underscore, or backquote, so the list looks like:

60.00.~32.32.nif 60.00._32.32.nif 60.00.`32.32.nif
60.00.~32.32.dds 60.00._32.32.dds 60.00.`32.32.dds
60.00.~32.32.msh 60.00._32.32.msh 60.00.`32.32.msh
60.00.00.32.dds 60.00.00.32.dds 60.00.00.32.dds
60.00.00.32.msh or 60.00.00.32.msh or 60.00.00.32.msh
60.00.00.32.nif 60.00.00.32.nif 60.00.00.32.nif
60.00.32.32.dds 60.00.32.32.dds 60.00.32.32.dds
60.00.32.32.msh 60.00.32.32.msh 60.00.32.32.msh
60.00.32.32.nif 60.00.32.32.nif 60.00.32.32.nif

To get the same order using the 'dir' command, you have to add the /on
argument, as in:

dir /on

(or 'dir /o-n' if you descend sort in Windows Explorer).
  #10  
Old March 29th 16, 09:18 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,

Yep, Microsoft handles the hyphen a bit weird, like they ignore it.

....
To get the same order using the 'dir' command, you have to add
the /on argument, as in:


Thanks for confirming my posted observations.

They are doing something goofy regarding non-alphanumeric
characters.


Yep, that was my conclusion too. It might well be only the hyphen symbol
though, but who knows.

When wrote the above I realized I did not even search for an MS explanation
to this sorting behaviour. Alas, a quick search did not turn up anything in
that regard ...

And that brings me back to my initial question: How do I get Windows to drop
all kinds of fancy sorting rules and revert to (something like) ASCII order
?

.... though I would not mind if upper and lowercase differences are ignored
(man, I do not make it easy, do I ? :-D )

Regards,
Rudy Wieser


-- Origional message:
VanguardLH schreef in berichtnieuws
...
R.Wieser wrote:

My previous subject "Explorer filename sorting problem - NoStrCmpLogical
already present" has evolved into a much simpler one: How do I get XP's
explorer (but the "dir" command too!) to stop ignoring the minus sign

inside
filenames

60.00.00.32.dds
60.00.00.32.msh
60.00.00.32.nif
60.00.32.32.dds
60.00.-32.32.dds
60.00.32.32.msh
60.00.-32.32.msh
60.00.32.32.nif
60.00.-32.32.nif

the reason why the above is "sorted" as it is -- with the third column
showing an interleaved "33" and "-32" -- is because the minus sign is
regarded as a hyphen (a word-coupling character) and ignored. The above
list than translates to:

60.00.00.32.dds
60.00.00.32.msh
60.00.00.32.nif
60.00.32.32.dds
60.00.32.32.dds
60.00.32.32.msh
60.00.32.32.msh
60.00.32.32.nif
60.00.32.32.nif

... which makes (some sort of) sense.

But as those "-" characters inthge first list are *NOT* hypens (but
minus-signs) that second list isn't reflecting the meaning of the

filenames
contents. :-(

tl;dr:
How do I get XP's explorer (and "dir" command too) to stop ignoring the
minus sign inside filenames.

Or more in general: How do I stop it from treating *any* character
specially, and just sort all of them on their binary value.


Had some more time to play. Yep, Microsoft handles the hyphen a bit
weird, like they ignore it. They are doing something goofy regarding
non-alphanumeric characters.

What I did was to replace the hyphen with a different non-alphanumeric
character, like tilde, underscore, or backquote, so the list looks like:

60.00.~32.32.nif 60.00._32.32.nif 60.00.`32.32.nif
60.00.~32.32.dds 60.00._32.32.dds 60.00.`32.32.dds
60.00.~32.32.msh 60.00._32.32.msh 60.00.`32.32.msh
60.00.00.32.dds 60.00.00.32.dds 60.00.00.32.dds
60.00.00.32.msh or 60.00.00.32.msh or 60.00.00.32.msh
60.00.00.32.nif 60.00.00.32.nif 60.00.00.32.nif
60.00.32.32.dds 60.00.32.32.dds 60.00.32.32.dds
60.00.32.32.msh 60.00.32.32.msh 60.00.32.32.msh
60.00.32.32.nif 60.00.32.32.nif 60.00.32.32.nif

To get the same order using the 'dir' command, you have to add the /on
argument, as in:

dir /on

(or 'dir /o-n' if you descend sort in Windows Explorer).



  #11  
Old March 29th 16, 06:52 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support
VanguardLH[_2_]
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Default Explorer filename sorting - disable ignoring of the hyphen ("-") char ?

R.Wieser wrote:

How do I get Windows to drop all kinds of fancy sorting rules and
revert to (something like) ASCII order


A lot of behaviors in Windows Explorer are hard coded (well, all of them
are but I mean in that you don't get any options to remove some of the
unwanted behavior). It will show .zip files as folders (unless you
deregister the zipfldr.dll). It will handle some "special" folders
differently; for example, as I recall, navigate to C:\Windows and double
click on the Fonts folder. It won't show the contents of the Fonts
folder within Windows Explorer but instead opens the font manager
dialog.

Perhaps a non-Microsoft file manager would provide more sane sorting;
e.g., FreeCommander, MultiCommander, Explorer++ (all freeware). There
are free editions of crippled paywa Xplorer2 Lite, XYplorer Free,
Directory Opus Light. I have not used any of them. Folks in the
alt.comp.freeware newsgroup might have some experience with them. Users
that don't like the behaviors or deficiences of Windows Explorer often
use a replacement.
  #12  
Old March 29th 16, 08:06 PM 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,

A lot of behaviors in Windows Explorer are hard coded (well, all
of them are but I mean in that you don't get any options to remove
some of the unwanted behavior).


:-) I was hoping that there would be a setting somewhere that I could
change, such as you can do with the NoStrCmpLogical registry setting. That
I currently do not know of such a possibility could just be a lack of my
knowledge in this regard. Hence my asking. Alas, you do not seem to know
of such a possibility either. Bummer ...

Perhaps a non-Microsoft file manager would provide more
sane sorting;


That would, just as with MS, fully depend on who's programming it. :-)

But yes, that would be a possibility. I could even have a go at it myself.
Just have to remember to use shlwapi's "C" variant of its StrCmp functions.

Regards,
Rudy Wieser


-- Origional message:
VanguardLH schreef in berichtnieuws
...
R.Wieser wrote:

How do I get Windows to drop all kinds of fancy sorting rules and
revert to (something like) ASCII order


A lot of behaviors in Windows Explorer are hard coded (well, all of them
are but I mean in that you don't get any options to remove some of the
unwanted behavior). It will show .zip files as folders (unless you
deregister the zipfldr.dll). It will handle some "special" folders
differently; for example, as I recall, navigate to C:\Windows and double
click on the Fonts folder. It won't show the contents of the Fonts
folder within Windows Explorer but instead opens the font manager
dialog.

Perhaps a non-Microsoft file manager would provide more sane sorting;
e.g., FreeCommander, MultiCommander, Explorer++ (all freeware). There
are free editions of crippled paywa Xplorer2 Lite, XYplorer Free,
Directory Opus Light. I have not used any of them. Folks in the
alt.comp.freeware newsgroup might have some experience with them. Users
that don't like the behaviors or deficiences of Windows Explorer often
use a replacement.



 




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