Bob, If you remove the “numeric” the result is “2,3,4,6,a”.
To me this implies that ASCII values are used as the sortKey. But that begs the issue why, as in your post, with “numeric” included, the “a” appears first. What makes the “a” a lower "numeric" value than “2”? Craig > On Sep 7, 2023, at 11:19 AM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > put "4,2,a,3,6" into tList;sort items of tList numeric ascending;put tList _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode