Re: sorting

EBCDIC goes all alpha A-Z then all digits 1-9
ASCII goes all digits 1-9 then all alpha A-Z
there are also some special characters in there.

In AS/400 programming languages & utilities there is the capability of
changing this ... check the documentation on "collating sequence."  This used
to be charted in an appendix to the RPG programming manual - it might be in
the Programmer's Reference Handbook.

I have no idea whether other stuff outside of IBM is that sophisticated.

> From: awawrzaszek@nucorauburn.com (Angela Wawrzaszek)
>
>  I have a 2 position text field that I am sorting by.  The codes go from AA,
>  AB...A1, A2... BB, B1  etc.  We are sending this to a sql server.  When
they
>  sort it,  the order is  A1, AA,  ...B1, BB   The numerics are taking
>  precedence.  They say it is sorting ascii.  I thought ascii sort was
>  alpha/numeric also???

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