Turning off warnings temporarily gets rid of the messages, but I wouldn't recommend it. Warnings are useful because they tell you that something is wrong and needs your attention.

No, a warning doesn't say something is wrong. If something is wrong, you get an error. The warnings something may be wrong. Big difference. If the given case, sorting strings that starts with numbers numerically, the easiest, and IMO the right thing to do is to turn the warnings off.

Going out of your way to avoid a warning to happen defeats the purpose of having a fine-grade, lexically tuneable warning system.

Abigail

In reply to Re: Sort Says "not numeric" then sorts numeric anyway? by Abigail-II
in thread Sort Says "not numeric" then sorts numeric anyway? by Cody Pendant

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