Your rindex is giving you the index of the last |.

You then take a substring starting there.

You are then taking strings that look like "|10" and "|100" and doing a numerical comparison. Neither looks like a number, so that turns into 0 being compared with 0. Add 1 to the rindex and that problem would go away.

BTW if you turned warnings on, you would have been told about this up front. Secondly if you had used an existing database then the problem would never have arisen. And finally the moral is that when debugging it is really bad to wildly guess at what you think the problem could be. Instead methodically work through what you think should happen and what is happening until you find the discrepancy (which could be anywhere).

In reply to Re (tilly) 1: Sorting issues by tilly
in thread Sorting issues by Stamp_Guy

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