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+/* My own scandir sorting function, useful for the film industry where
+   we have many files with numbers in their names: */
+
+#include <config.h>
+#include <ctype.h>
+#include <stdlib.h>
+#include <sys/types.h>
+
+#ifdef WIN32
+#include <FL/filename.H>
+#else
+#if HAVE_DIRENT_H
+# include <dirent.h>
+#else
+# define dirent direct
+# if HAVE_SYS_NDIR_H
+#  include <sys/ndir.h>
+# endif
+# if HAVE_SYS_DIR_H
+#  include <sys/dir.h>
+# endif
+# if HAVE_NDIR_H
+#  include <ndir.h>
+# endif
+#endif
+#endif
+
+int numericsort(const struct dirent **A, const struct dirent **B) {
+  const char* a = (*A)->d_name;
+  const char* b = (*B)->d_name;
+  int ret = 0;
+  for (;;) {
+    if (isdigit(*a) && isdigit(*b)) {
+      int zdiff,diff,magdiff;
+      zdiff = 0;
+      while (*a == '0') {a++; zdiff++;}
+      while (*b == '0') {b++; zdiff--;}
+      while (isdigit(*a) && *a == *b) {a++; b++;}
+      diff = (isdigit(*a) && isdigit(*b)) ? *a - *b : 0;
+      magdiff = 0;
+      while (isdigit(*a)) {magdiff++; a++;}
+      while (isdigit(*b)) {magdiff--; b++;}
+      if (ret);
+      else if (magdiff) ret = magdiff;
+      else if (diff) ret = diff;
+      else if (zdiff) ret = zdiff;
+    } else if (*a == *b) {
+      if (!*a) return ret;
+      a++; b++;
+    } else
+      return (*a-*b);
+  }
+}