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How would I sort a list of files by name to match how Windows Explorer displays them?

Greetings everyone!!!

I am facing a problem when getting files with the method Directory.GetFiles. I have files in the following sequence in my directory.

Slide1.png, Slide2.png,Slide3.png,Slide4.png and so on.

When i get the files it returns in the format Slide1.png, Slide10.png, Slide11.png,Slide12.png, Slide2.png,Slide21.png and so on…

It is sorting with the file name and combining the same values. i am trying Array.sort() but its not sorting as i want. i want the following sequence.

Slide1.png, Slide2.png,Slide3.png,Slide4.png and so on.

I am using VB.NET Framework version 4.0.

Thank you

Answer 1

You have to pad the numbers with zeroes, like so:

Slide01.png
Slide02.png
...
Slide10.png
...

I’ve had many problems with this myself, so if you have many of them to do (I had 600 images), try a batch renamer, like Metamorphose.