Ah…! thank you for the further insight Larioso; very interesting reading. I see what you mean about text/number strings as individual ‘columns’.
If I’m following you correctly, it seems that Cubase’s Mediabay and its other browsers, consider the entire name string as individual columns of letters/numbers, which it uses to sort its display listing order; which is fine, except when it comes to those ‘rules’ handling trailing/leading zeros that have numeric entries at the right - which I now understand why its just wrong.
Well, I’m done…!
In all this, I am with you… I like how you describe the ‘Reaper way’ of working - providing more flexible handling of sort ordering name-text strings when listing a table of results in a database.