sort bug

[Craig Newman]

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 at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> put "4,2,a,3,6" into tList;sort items of tList numeric ascending;put tList