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Computers have been sorting with natural sort for decades. By now, it is "how computers work". Were you under the impression this was something new?
by crazygringo 1y ago
Computers have been sorting with natural sort for decades. By now, it is "how computers work".
Were you under the impression this was something new?
- f33d5173 1y agoI was very surprised by it when I noticed it a year or so ago. What's interesting is that when it works, eg you have a directory with numbers from 1-10, you don't really notice it. It isn't until it bites you in the ass, eg your downloads folder with a bunch long numeric strings, some in hex, where you want to find one and suddely it's not where you expect. I used a gui software some years ago that distinguished between version sort and alphabetic sort. It would be handy to have a toggle.