Well, you could also use a QofQ or UDF to re-sort them by length first,
then alphabetically.

--Ben

Mickael wrote:

> I see, that is the only way to do it?
>   ----- Original Message -----
>   From: Burns, John D
>   To: CF-Talk
>   Sent: Monday, June 28, 2004 1:55 PM
>   Subject: RE: Ordering File Names
>
>   You need to make the numbers -01, -02 etc.  File systems order
>   alphabetically, not numerically. If you can't get the files in a
>   different format, you may want to run some kind of script to rename
>   everything to take the number between - and . And convert it to a 3
>   digit number.
>
>   John
>
>   -----Original Message-----
>   From: Mickael [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>   Sent: Monday, June 28, 2004 1:53 PM
>   To: CF-Talk
>   Subject: Ordering File Names
>
>   Hi All,
>
>   I need to display file names from my directory on a page.  The file
>   names are in the following format 1014133248-1.pdf, 1014133248-2.pdf,
>   1014133248-3.pdf etc
>
>   I need to display them in order, this works fine for files up to -9 but
>   after that I end up with
>
>   1014133248-1.pdf
>   1014133248-11.pdf
>   1014133248-12.pdf
>
>   I am using CFDIRECTORY Then a Query of the output.  Is there a way to
>   order them properly?
>
>   Thanks
>
>   Mike
>
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