Listbox Sort not working as intended 1

[GPerk]

I have several data files where the first 8 characters on each line is the date in YYYYMMDD format.
Immediately following the date is a one-letter code.
For example:
20100531P Some data
20100531n Some more data

When I add these two lines to the listbox, I want them in the sequence shown in the example.
The 'n' was deliberately chosen so that 2 entries with the same date would be in that sequence.
(The Sort property is set to True.)

But the entries show up in this order:
20100531n Some more data
20100531P Some data

Since the ascii value for n is hex 6E
and the ascii value for P is hex 50,
why are the entries ending up with the n before the P?

 

[Bluejay07]

In my opinion, it seems like its sorting alphabetically, hence 'n' comes before 'P', therefore the sort is working correctly. Hex values shouldn't have anything to do with it as a hex value is not being displayed.

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[GPerk]

Thanks, Bluejay07.

Then that means the control is converting everything to lower case to determine the sort sequence.
I knew that search engines and the internet in general did that; didn't know VB2008 also does.

But it used to work the way I wanted it to, until I rebuilt the program a few months ago.

Looks like I will have to write a program to go thru the data files and change the code letters in them.