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Seigo: Plasma.next()?

Seigo: Plasma.next()?

Posted Jan 29, 2013 18:49 UTC (Tue) by Tara_Li (subscriber, #26706)
In reply to: Seigo: Plasma.next()? by mgedmin
Parent article: Seigo: Plasma.next()?

Yes - yes I am.


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Seigo: Plasma.next()?

Posted Jan 30, 2013 16:56 UTC (Wed) by Wol (guest, #4433) [Link]

Wyhat happens if I'm trying to number months? This EXACT problem bit me ...

1041_JAN
1052_FEB
...
...
113A_OCT
114B_NOV
115C_DEC

That's the order I *want*. Except the order I *get* thinks that October comes before January ...

Just because the computer thinks that A is not a number, doesn't mean I'm not counting in hex...

Cheers,
Wol

Seigo: Plasma.next()?

Posted Jan 31, 2013 4:01 UTC (Thu) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link]

This sounds like some metadata that could go into a .directory file beside the files. Now if only `ls` would read those as well…

I certainly don't want a file browser sitting there for 5 minutes trying to figure out that I format filenames by "%Y%b%0d, %a, %H%M%S - description" for some directory and sort accordingly if I can just give it that information.

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