Sort Listview columns by items size ( 512 KB, 0.25 MB etc )

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Hi, I want to sort Listview columns by size ( 512 KB, 0.25 MB etc )

Column1:
filename1
filename2
filename3
filename4

Column2:
512 KB
0.25 MB
344 MB
1920 KB

I have searched for it but all the results is sorting like this ( which is not a numerical sort )
1
10
2
3

So is there any simple solution?

Posted 25-Aug-13 0:30am

Leecherman

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Thomas Daniels · Answer 1 · 2013-08-25T00:36:00

Solution 1

Hi,

Have a look here:
http://stackoverflow.com/a/1214333[^]

Posted 25-Aug-13 0:36am

Thomas Daniels

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Leecherman 25-Aug-13 7:49am

thanks for your reply.
this solution doesn't works if there is a numeric followed by strings ( like 1230 KB )

Thomas Daniels 25-Aug-13 8:23am

Make two seperate columns: one column for the number (1230) and one column for KB, MB, ...
Then, first sort by KB, MB, ... and then by number.

Leecherman 25-Aug-13 8:40am

unfortunately i have more than 10 columns ( not just have size values but other values which have numerics followed by strings ) so this will not be a proper method to do that.
thanks again.

Thomas Daniels 25-Aug-13 8:44am

There's another solution. Have a look here:
http://stackoverflow.com/a/508264