Does LINQ sort special characters first?

Question

It seems that when sorting with LINQ, special characters are not considered, and I did not expect this. Anyway, I need to sort the special characters so that they appear first in the list. Any ideas? I know that I can do something like: Use LINQ for random sorting , but how to enable sorting to transmit special characters:

List of examples:

• "Test"
• Test

Daniel

Answer 1

.Net 3.5 , IComparer. , . , , , IComparer. :

List<string> list = new List<string>();
list.Sort((x, y) =>
{
    if(Char.IsLetterOrDigit(x[0])){
        if(!Char.IsLetterOrDigit(y[0])){
            // x is a letter/digit and y is not, override regular CompareTo
            return -1;
        }
    }
    else if (Char.IsLetterOrDigit(y[0]))
    {
        // y is a letter/digit and x is not, override regular CompareTo
        return 1;
    }
    return x.CompareTo(y);
});

Answer 2

System.Linq.Enumerable OrderBy ThenBy, , IComparer<T>. ( ), , .

Answer 3

qry = qry.OrderBy(q => q.VALUE.Replace("-","aaa"));

It worked for me. It's simple.