Esteemed monks,

I just ran into an issue with the Template-Toolkit and I'm not sure wether I miss something obvious or if it is a bug in the Toolkit.

On my webserver I have a directory that looks like this: 
C:\xampp\htdocs\messages

20050121.html 
20050122.html
20050123.html
20050124.html 
20050125.html 
20050126.html 
20050127.html 
20050128.html 
20050129.html
20050130.html 
20050913.html 
20051124.html

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The names are in the YYYYMMDD-format. In a template I iterate over this directory using 
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
    <tr>
        <td colspan="2">
        [% USE dumper(indent=0, pad="<br>") %]

        [% USE dir = Directory('/xampp/htdocs/messages') %]

        [% FOREACH file = dir.files.sort %]
            <p>[%  file.name %]</p>
            <p>[%#  file.contents %]</p>
        [% END %]

        </td>
    </tr>
</table>

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I also tried 
[% FOREACH file = dir.files.sort(file.name) %]
[% FOREACH file = dir.files.sort(name) %]

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But none of them seems to work, because in the output the files are in this order: 
20050128.html
20050127.html
20050126.html
20050125.html
20050124.html
20050123.html
20050122.html
20050121.html
20051124.html
20050913.html
20050130.html
20050129.html

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As you can see they are not sorted. Anyone has a clue why?

Yours desperatly,


holli, /regexed monk/


Update:
I have just noticed that all is well when I just use 
[% FOREACH file = dir.files %]

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Don't you call that premature optimization? ;(

Anyway the question is still valid. Why does the sort not work?

In reply to Sort in Template Toolkit broken? by holli

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