Title: Not sorting numerically correctly
Last modified: December 27, 2016

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# Not sorting numerically correctly

 *  Resolved [shawntamez](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shawntamez/)
 * (@shawntamez)
 * [9 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/not-sorting-numerically-correctly/)
 * When sorting a column I dont think it is sorting numerically.
 * For instance if sorting by descending it will sort
 * 99
    98 58 57 23 198 156 100 etc..
 * Here is a link to where I’ sorting a column.
    [http://ttz1.com/2016-aoy-standings/](http://ttz1.com/2016-aoy-standings/)
 * The total pts column works but the others dont. Is it because there is a – in
   some of the columns? Should that be replaced with a 0.

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 *  Thread Starter [shawntamez](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shawntamez/)
 * (@shawntamez)
 * [9 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/not-sorting-numerically-correctly/#post-8594076)
 * Yep, that is why. Cant have the “-” in there.
 *  Plugin Author [Tobias Bäthge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobiasbg/)
 * (@tobiasbg)
 * [9 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/not-sorting-numerically-correctly/#post-8594093)
 * Hi,
 * thanks for your post, and sorry for the trouble.
 * You are correct, the plain `-` will turn the column values into “text” and no
   longer “numbers”. And text is simply sorted differently.
    I suggest to remove
   all those `-` to get the proper numeric sorting.
 * Regards,
    Tobias

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 * Last reply from: [Tobias Bäthge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobiasbg/)
 * Last activity: [9 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/not-sorting-numerically-correctly/#post-8594093)
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