Re: Sorting Datagrid With Hyphen / Dash

From: Samuel Kim (look341_at_gmail.com)
Date: 03/08/05 

Date: 8 Mar 2005 15:45:17 -0800

Due to their sequence in the ASCII set, - (hyphen) comes before the
numbers.
One way you can get around this behavior is to replace the hyphens with
underscore(_) character and do comparison.

If you change the hyphens to underscore, then you will need to revert
the changes once you are done - this you may not like so much.

To overcome this you can implement a class that implements the
IComparator interface and pass it along to the sort mechanism - the
IComparator instance can read the strings replace hyphen to underscore
and then compare. This will not require a change of your original data
and hence may be a cleaner solution - except for the fact that you need
to create another class.

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