Unconditional sorting of tags

[larssundin]

I use a user defined shortlist to produce a csv file. The reusult is sorted alphabetically with me using the sort argument.

My findings:
1) By changing the order of the arguments I can get an unsorted result.
2) Adding '#' (for no PrintConversion) to some tags trigger sorting.
3) Maybe it's just random.

[Phil Harvey]

This is a bit complex.  I really should look at the code here, but the attempt is to return the columns in the same order they were requested:

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> exiftool -subject -keywords -artist -csv a.jpg b.jpg
SourceFile,Subject,Keywords,Artist
a.jpg,,"one,two",
b.jpg,a picture,,me

If you can provide a simple example like this that behaves unexpectedly, I'll analyze it to see what is happening.

- Phil