Re: Sorting Question

When you say "sort a file", what do you mean, exactly? You mean you want to physically sort the records in this sequence?

Or do you mean that you are writing code that reads the file, and you want it to be read in this sequence?

Are you writing this code in RPG? RPG w/SQL? PHP? Java? Cobol?

I'm thinking along the same lines as what Brian suggested, i.e. use qsort()... but then I thought, "well, he says he wants to sort a file, not an array". So I don't know if the qsort() would work. Plus, without knowing what language you're coding in, how do I know you can use qsort?

Then I thought, "maybe an SQL UDF". But then, "maybe he's not using SQL!" and "maybe a UDF would be too slow" and "maybe he wants to physically sort the records, not just read in that sequence".

Perhaps I think too much.



Jon S wrote:

I have the need to sort a file of IP addresses on a display as if they had a leading zero. For example they want to see


192.44.208.119 192.44.208.12 192.44.208.120
to be sorted as


192.44.208.12 192.44.208.119 192.44.208.120
as if the .12 had a leading zero. This is a character field. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance.


Jon
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