std.file.dirEntries unsorted

Marco Leise Marco.Leise at gmx.de
Wed Dec 11 02:31:56 PST 2013


Am Wed, 11 Dec 2013 08:00:27 +0100
schrieb "Jesse Phillips" <Jesse.K.Phillips+D at gmail.com>:

> It should only be documented. In my experience processing files 
> don't need a particular order and sorting may not be needed by 
> name.
> 
> Returning a sorted directory is difficult to define, should 
> directories come first or be mixed with the files. Is uppercase 
> grouped together? Does A come before a. Should the extension be 
> included or postponed for later.
> 
> I think sorting should be explicit.

Does 2.jpg come after 10.jpg ? What's the order of
Arabic-Indic "one" ۱ compared to "Latin one" 1 ? And so on and
so forth.

-- 
Marco



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