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Natural sort by geocode

See original GitHub issue

Detailed steps causing the problem:

Open list of caches
Sort by geocode

Actual behavior after performing these steps:

Caches are sorted lexicographically/alphabetically.

GC1ABCD
GC2345
GC56EFG
GC77

Expected behavior after performing these steps:

Natural sorting, for example:

GC77
GC2345
GC1ABCD
GC56EFG

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 7 years ago
Reactions:1
Comments:5 (3 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

3reactions

pstorchcommented, Feb 9, 2017

Sure, but that is boring 😉

0reactions

steve8x8commented, Feb 13, 2017

Sorting by age may be misleading. People grab a cache GCcode, then take their time to prepare for publication. Have seen 1 yr delay myself. Cache id (as used in gpx export) is what to look for.

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