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Old 07-01-2017, 10:21 AM   #4
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Originally Posted by AlanB View Post
Thanks for that. Wasn't sure if I was missing something.
Nope. There will always be edge cases that break things.

Series [#] is really 2 fields underneath (String and Floating point). This allows numeric sorts of the members or you would see 1.10,100,2,200,3... alpha sorting)
There is no bullet proof solution.

BTW for magazines I use [year.issue#] and even that gets broken with 'double issues
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