[Xapian-devel] Re: [XapianBug 84] Enquire_set_sort_by_value() and friends have no effect

[Alexander Lind]

ah, that explains it ... sorry to waste your time, im going to go sit in
the corner for a while now :p

is there a reason you have no numeric sort function?

cheers
alec

bugzilla-daemon at ixion.tartarus.org wrote:
> http://www.xapian.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=84
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> olly at survex.com changed:
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>            What    |Removed                     |Added
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>              Status|ASSIGNED                    |RESOLVED
>          Resolution|                            |INVALID
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> ------- Additional Comments From olly at survex.com  2006-07-06 16:36 -------
> I've just taken a look.  The example script is actually working correctly.
>
> You should note that the sort uses a *STRING* compare as documented here:
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> http://www.xapian.org/docs/apidoc/html/classXapian_1_1Enquire.html#cc00543ba0459cc8ceca25e89fe69e19
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> So "100" < "20" < "3".
>
> I suspect you were expecting a numeric sort - if you want to sort numbers
> you'll need to left pad them with zeros or spaces at present.
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