Them you have to plan how many digits can be and use leading zeros
300000 for 300,000 books
000025 for 25 books
(stupid, isn't it ?)

Just an idea:
We should need some formatting markups e.g.
(:value {$:var} <oper> <format>:)
(:string  {$:var} <oper> <format>:)

where
    "value" transforms page text variable as string to formatted number
    "string" transforms page text variable as number  to formatted string

    <oper> :=  replace | display
                      replace  {$:var} with the result or
                      displays the result

    <format>  places before decimal comma, places after decimal comma | 
formatting template (e.g. 99 999,99 or Z9 999.99 )

example:
var1:25

(:value {$:var1} display 7,2:) results to 0000025.00 displayed on the page
(:value {$:var1} replace  7,2:) results to 0000025.00 saved to var1 (ROS 
? , on submit ?)

(:string {$:var1} display Z99:) results to 025 displayed on the page
(:string {$:var1} display B9999:) results to &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;25 
displayed on the page
(:string {$:var1} replace  Z99:) results to 025 saved to var1 (ROS ? , 
on submit ?)

May be PHP has different formatting patterns (I'm not php coder) and
a discusion could be useful.

Regards,
Jiri



Jon Haupt napsal(a):
> On 3/5/07, Jiri Hladůvka / OBUTEX <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>   
>> The sorting is text sorting - consider the digits as characters
>> A. Fish:09
>> B. Fish:10
>> C. Fish:30
>>
>> If the numbers are result of some incrementing then start the numbering
>> from 100 or 1000
>> not to have the same problem when 100 or 1000 arrived
>>
>> Regards
>> Jiri
>>
>>     
>
> In my case, I'm putting in metadata about libraries.  For example,
> Library A has 90 books, Library B has 10,000 books, and Library C has
> 300,000 books.  If I sort by $:Books, I get  BCA, so can I create a
> different kind of sorting that will arrive at ABC?
>
> Jon
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