That is certainly an annoying default. Make you have to rethink your naming convention.
Wolf Strategic Cybersecurity AdvisoryCloud https://Bit.ly/WolfHalton > On Jul 6, 2019, at 08:31, Curt <cu...@free.fr> wrote: > >> On 2019-07-06, songbird <songb...@anthive.com> wrote: >> Curt wrote: >>> On 2019-07-05, mick crane <mick.cr...@gmail.com> wrote: >> ... >>>> I'm incrementing the number by the loop and some software sees 2 as >>>> bigger that 10 or something like this. I can probably get around that by >>> >>> Not sure exactly what you mean by some software, but you must be sorting >>> lexicographically (the numbers are treated as strings, in which case >>> alphabetically speaking 1 goes before 2). >>> >>> I don't think anybody's pointed this out yet (to my surprise) so I >>> thought I would (maybe I missed it), although my ignorance is nearly >>> total in the matter. >> >> i have no perl programming experience so i could >> not speak to that issue. > > This wasn't a criticism of anyone but rather an observation. > > In the bash shell I have wondered about this sorting "anomaly" myself and so > looked it up this very day. As the simple (and pretty obvious, really) answer > was completely amenable to my intellectual powers, I was kind of enjoying > myself believing I'd mastered a trivial programming concept and wished to > share > my joyful discovery with the group. That it happened to be the result of the > OP's explicit interrogation and so proves itself to be on-topic is a matter of > pure serendipity. > > ;-) > > # sort numerically ascending > my @articles = sort {$a <=> $b} @files; > > # sort numerically descending > my @articles = sort {$b <=> $a} @files; > > The default must be to sort lexicographically. > >> >> songbird >> >> > > > -- > "These findings demonstrate that under appropriate conditions the isolated, > intact large mammalian brain possesses an underappreciated capacity for > restoration of microcirculation and molecular and cellular activity after a > prolonged post-mortem interval." From a recent article in *Nature*. Holy > shit. >
