Natural sorting of Results

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Natural sorting of Results paramon  2018-06-04 14:04
 

Currently, imported results are sorted lexicographically by their names. However, that breaks the expected sort order in common case of short cardinal numbering, e.g.

2017-01-05-N57784-25-1.raw
2017-01-05-N57784-25-2.raw
2017-01-05-N57784-25-3.raw
2017-01-05-N57784-25-4.raw
2017-01-05-N57784-25-5.raw
2017-01-05-N57784-25-6.raw
2017-01-05-N57784-25-7.raw
2017-01-05-N57784-25-8.raw
2017-01-05-N57784-25-9.raw
2017-01-05-N57784-25-10.raw
2017-01-05-N57784-25-11.raw
2017-01-05-N57784-25-12.raw

come out in Results Manager/Results Grid as

2017-01-05-N57784-25-1.raw
2017-01-05-N57784-25-10.raw
2017-01-05-N57784-25-11.raw
2017-01-05-N57784-25-12.raw
2017-01-05-N57784-25-2.raw
2017-01-05-N57784-25-3.raw
2017-01-05-N57784-25-4.raw
2017-01-05-N57784-25-5.raw
2017-01-05-N57784-25-6.raw
2017-01-05-N57784-25-7.raw
2017-01-05-N57784-25-8.raw
2017-01-05-N57784-25-9.raw

It is proposed that Natural Sort algorithm is used for replicate names:
https://blog.codinghorror.com/sorting-for-humans-natural-sort-order/

 
 
Brian Pratt responded:  2018-06-08 11:59
That is an excellent suggestion. I'll enter it into our to-do list.

Thanks,

Brian Pratt