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On 5/2/2012 1:15 PM, Jon Paris wrote:

The only way to make it work with sorta is if the two fields are
adjacent in the array element _and_ in the right order _and_ are both
character fields.


They also have to be fixed-length character fields.

But I think qsort is better for this purpose anyway even if they were both fixed length character. Once you have qsort set up, it's easy to modify it to change how the comparison is done. (It's not hard to set up in the first place.)

Using the technique where you use a character overlay to sort several subfields is kludgy and if if it's not very carefully and visibly documented, it's error prone.


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