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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 <V@nguard.LH> schreef in berichtnieuws
dlr4ciFjlruU1@mid.individual.net...
> 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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