Sorting Titles That Include Numbers

  • Resolved Norman Eliaser

    (@eliasern)


    8 years, 7 months ago

    Thanks very much for your plug-in.

    I’m looking for guidance on sorting by title. Some of our titles have numbers within them, like:

      Tehillim 1 and 15 – Ashrei.mp3
      Tehillim 121- I Lift My Eyes
      Tehillim 126 – From Galut to Geula
      Tehillim 13-14 – Struggling with Faith
      Tehillim 137 – On the Rivers of Babylon
      Tehillim 18
      Tehillim 22 – Ayelet HaShachar

    I was hoping that these would sort numerically, rather than by ASCII, so that Tehillim 18 wouldn’t be between Tehillim 137 and Tehillim 22, but sorted before Tehillim 121, etc.

    Can you give me a pointer, please? Thanks!

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  • Andy Keith

    (@andykeith)

    8 years, 6 months ago

    Hi Norman,

    Hmm, I can’t think of a way to do that as the column is sorted alphabetically. The only way would be to put zeros in the song numbers. E.g:

    Tehiliim 018
    Tehiliim 022
    Tehiliim 137

    etc…

    Sorry I can’t be more help

    Thread Starter Norman Eliaser

    (@eliasern)

    8 years, 6 months ago

    Thanks, Andy,

    That’s where I was last week. My updated solution (which I’m playing with now) is to use extra non-breaking spaces as placeholders instead of 0’s so that it doesn’t look quite so inappropriate.

    
Tehillim   1
Tehillim  13
Tehillim 125

    —Norman

    Andy Keith

    (@andykeith)

    8 years, 6 months ago

    Makes sense. Let me know how you get on.

    Andy

    Thread Starter Norman Eliaser

    (@eliasern)

    8 years, 6 months ago

    It does the trick. (Click the link.)

    One could code something to make it prettier, but this is acceptable for what we’re doing.

    Thanks!

    —Norman

    Andy Keith

    (@andykeith)

    8 years, 6 months ago

    Great, well done! I’ll make a note of that in case anyone else needs the same.

    Andy

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