Re: Explaing "order" of Alpha field...

Thanks Joel !

I'll check that out. Yep, knew about the "numbers", letters but wasn't sure the
best "wordage" when it came to "blanks", underscores, etc. :-) !

Chuck

Joel Fritz wrote:

> See ILE RPG/400 Reference APPENDIX1.2  Appendix B.  EBCDIC Collating
> Sequence
>
> Basically (in ascending order) it's lower case, upper case, numbers.
> There's some punctuation characters thrown in to make things interesting.
> ASCII doesn't work the same way.
>
> You could, if you have it on CD or on line, print the abovementioned section
> of the manual for them.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Chuck Lewis [mailto:CLEWIS@IQUEST.NET]
> > Sent: Monday, March 22, 1999 10:41 AM
> > To: RPG400-L@midrange.com
> > Subject: Explaing "order" of Alpha field...
> >
> >
> > Hi Folks,
> >
> > Was wondering if anyone has been through this before and has a short
> > document or something that explains HOW an alpha field is "sorted". I
> > know in my head but need to put something together for our users and
> > thought WHY reinvent the wheel ;-) ESPECIALLY since I'm
> > buried in a ton
> > of other stuff <G>.
> >
> > What I have is a physical inventory location file/programs (3rd party)
> > that has Row, Bin, Shelf as 3A and our users came off of a Unix system
> > and home grown apps and are having trouble with this so sort for bin
> > labels, etc. are coming out all screwed up...
> >
> > Thanks !!
> >
> > Chuck
> >
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