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  1. POHow do I use SortField to sort my data numerically in Flex/ActionScript?
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    copied!<p>From the documentation:</p> <p><strong>SortField () constructor</strong></p> <pre><code>public function SortField(name:String = null, caseInsensitive:Boolean = false, descending:Boolean = false, numeric:Object = null) </code></pre> <p>I'm confused on the last part - <code>numeric:Object = null</code>.</p> <p>Here is my function:</p> <pre><code>private function createXMLDataProvider():XMLListCollection{ var sort:Sort = new Sort(); sort.fields = [new SortField("@sortorder",true,false,true), new SortField("@label")]; var searchTypesCollection:XMLListCollection = new XMLListCollection(getAssociations(_appData.searchTypes, "category", searchType)); searchTypesCollection.sort = sort; searchTypesCollection.refresh(); return searchTypesCollection; } </code></pre> <p>On this line:</p> <pre><code>sort.fields = [new SortField("@sortorder",true,false,true), new SortField("@label")]; </code></pre> <p>The first SortField is a number but is being compared like it is text. What should I be putting where it says true?</p> <p>Also from the documentation:</p> <p>Specifies that if the field being sorted contains numeric (number/int/uint) values, or string representations of numeric values, the comparator use a numeric comparison. If this property is false, fields with string representations of numbers are sorted using strings comparison, so 100 precedes 99, because "1" is a lower string value than "9". If this property is null, the first data item is introspected to see if it is a number or string and the sort proceeds based on that introspection.</p> <p>The default value is false.</p>
 

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