Sort order of dirEntries

[H. S. Teoh]

On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 02:15:06AM +0200, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I've just been playing with dirEntries and by the looks of it, it
> returns these entries in arbitrary order.
> 
> Is there a way to get it to sort the entries in alphabetical order,
> other than the obvious one of storing them in an array and sorting
> that?  (This is untenable because I'm talking about a lot of
> files...:-)
[...]

This may not be possible if the OS doesn't keep the entries in sorted
order (and from what I know, most OS's don't; it's only sorted upon
display). *Somebody* will have to do the sorting, whether it's the OS,
or the library or user code. The performance penalty will still be
incurred regardless.


T

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