Returning filenames numerically

[DominicRoberton]

Hi All,

I have a large number of files that I need to pull the data from and stitch it together, I have an idea of how I can do this but the "List Folder.vi" that I was intending to use returns the filenames alphabetically giving me an array of file names in the following format:

1-xxxx, 10-xxx, 100-xxx, 2-xxxx, 20-xxx and so on.

I can't quite get my head around how I can re-sort the array so that irrelevent of the number of files in the  folder I always get the array in numerical order.

Any help?!

Cheers,

Dom

[MikeS81 · Accepted solution]

Hi Dom,

something like shown in the attached image should work for you.

Mike

[DominicRoberton]

Cheers for that,

I am not going to lie though the input string you used looks basically a bit like magic to me!!!  Can you show me how I would modify it to take care of files using the following naming system:

1-ER-Data

1-SS-Data

1-SS-GPSData

1-SS-UTCTime

Many thanks.

Dom

[DominicRoberton]

Actually I should have just tried what you put up before asking!!!

Thanks, it works 🙂

Any chance you can explain to me how it works?  Particularly why you input the magical numbers text string you did!!!

Cheers,

Dom

[MikeS81]

Hi Dom,

the "magic" string cuts the filename into extension and name without extension.

Mike