On Saturday 17 March 2007, Dotan Cohen wrote: > On 17/03/07, Anne Wilson <cannewilson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Saturday 17 March 2007, Dotan Cohen wrote: > > > How can I get Konqueror and other KDE apps to sort numerical file > > > names in human-expected way? Such that file3.txt is sorted before > > > file20.txt > > > > I wouldn't have thought that you can. The usual practice is to make the > > single-digit files into double-digit ones, eg. file03.txt > > > > Anne > > I'm pretty sure that I've seen this, though I'm not certain in KDE. > MySQL, for instance, sorts this way. > The reason I thought it impossible is that file3.txt is an alpha-name, and you are asking it to consider part of it as numerical. Of course there may be macros that can recognise the numeric part and separate them. I just haven't come across them. Long habit has caused me to add the zeros, to make it easy. Anne
