Never mind... sorting works as expected.

I was thrown off by a typo in the example's source:

  data.setCell(1, 1, 8000, '$800');

should be (one extra zero on the formatted value):

  data.setCell(1, 1, 8000, '$8000');

thanks,
-Travis

On Sep 30, 4:01 pm, Travis Gebhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It looks like the Table visualization is sorting columns by their
> formatted values rather than their actual values.
>
> For instance, look at the first table on this 
> page:http://code.google.com/apis/visualization/documentation/gallery/table...
>
> Click on the "Salary" column once to sort the table in ascending order
> by salary. The salary column will now look like this:
>
> $7,000
> $800
> $10,000
> $12,500
>
> Note that $7,000 comes before $800. It appears that the sort was done
> by lexicographical order on the formatted value rather than by
> numerical order on the actual value.
>
> I would have expected it to instead have sorted like this:
>
> $800
> $7,000
> $10,000
> $12,500
>
> The actual values given in setCell() calls were 800, 7000, 10000, and
> 12500. Shouldn't the sort use these instead?
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