String sorting issue in C#

Question

I have List like this

    List items = new List();
    items.Add(\"-\");
    items.Add(\".\");
    items.Add(\"a-\");
    items.A         


        

Answer 1

If you want your string sort to be based on the actual byte value as opposed to the rules defined by the current culture you can sort by Ordinal:

items.Sort(StringComparer.Ordinal);

This will make the results consistent across all cultures (but it will produce unintuitive sortings of "14" coming before "9" which may or may not be what you're looking for).