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 > <[email protected]> wrote: > > put "4,2,a,3,6" into tList;sort items of tList numeric ascending;put tList _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
