Thanks everyone. I'm kicking myself about that regex thing. I think I was kind of halfway there, but yeah how dumb not to realise it was staying sorted, not being sorted.

I'm guessing that what my silly regex-sort did was return a "1" or a "true" for both sides of the comparison -- "yes, there are digits at the start", and so everying was "is-one-bigger-or-smaller-than-one" and nothing happened?
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In reply to Re: Sort Says "not numeric" then sorts numeric anyway? by Cody Pendant
in thread Sort Says "not numeric" then sorts numeric anyway? by Cody Pendant

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