Albrecht Kadauke 1 Posted February 21 Share Posted February 21 Sorting titles of notes alphabetically ascending of the items below should show this (for instance a LibreOffice result): Artist LO24.2 LO7.6 Zyclone Evernote shows this instead: Artist LO7.6 LO24.2 Zyclone So the error only comes if numbers are integrated in the note title string. Is this a known bug? Link to comment
Level 5* gazumped 12,057 Posted February 21 Level 5* Share Posted February 21 7 hours ago, Albrecht Kadauke said: Is this a known bug? Hi. Not one I've seen - I'd suggest you contact https://help.evernote.com/hc/en-us/requests/ Link to comment
Mike P 2,972 Posted February 21 Share Posted February 21 7 hours ago, Albrecht Kadauke said: So the error only comes if numbers are integrated in the note title string. It appears that EN recognises numbers within a text string, so 7.6 comes before 24.2. Change it to LO70.6 and it comes after LO24.2. EN being a bit too clever for it's own good? 2 Link to comment
AlbertR 704 Posted February 22 Share Posted February 22 Sorting numbers within strings is a difficult task. We (as developers of an eCad system) often had requirements to sort strings like =A1+P7.1-K17:a and =A1+P24.2-K4:b. Internally you have to split the string to substrings containing only numbers and only other characters (simplyfied). Resulting table of substrings has to be sorted alphabetical in character columns and numerical in numerical columns. By doing so, 7 comes before 24 . So EN works correct even in this sophisticated area 😉 But this is not true. If EN has to sort strings like "003-test+2" and "03-test+1" it fails: first number 3 is identical. Second string "-test" is identical. Last numbers +2 and +1 should sort as +1..+2. But the notes are listed as 003-test+2 03-test+1 At the end it sorts along its own rules - that are not documented anywhere... Best idea so solve this is to insert leading or trailing "0"s according to your sorting needs. 1 Link to comment
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