_findnext - what order are files found in?

[Daih]

I have a program that's used _findfirst() and _findnext() successfully for months, but today it went wrong because files were being found in non-alphabetical (ASCII) order.
What order are they meant to come in? (MSDN doesn't say.)
Can I somehow force it to find them in alphabetical order?

Thanks v much,
Daih

 

[cpjust]

They come in any order the OS feels like. That's why you should never assume that . and .. will always be the first entries it returns. I too have found that most of the time, they are returned in alphabetical order. I think it might just read them in the order that they appear in the FAT table.