RE: Sorting "character" numbers

Always right justify the field that the user searches on before
SETLL or CHAIN if it's a HLL program.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-midrange-l@midrange.com
> [mailto:owner-midrange-l@midrange.com]On Behalf Of Stone, Brad V (TC)
> Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2000 3:28 PM
> To: 'MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com'
> Subject: RE: Sorting "character" numbers
> 
> 
> What will this do to indexing by this field?  If someone searches for
> invoice 100, they will either have to enter bbbbbb100 or I 
> would have to
> search with a LIKE keyword cause performance to go down the tubes.
> 
> Brad
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: alan shore [mailto:SHOREA@dime.com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2000 2:45 PM
> > To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> > Subject: Re: Sorting "character" numbers
> > 
> > 
> > I am assuming (we all know what assume is made from - ASS of 
> > U and ME) any way --- I am assuming that the DB character 
> > field is created LEFT justified, for example invoice number 
> > 900 is in positions 1,2,3
> > and invoice 1101 is in positions 1,2,3,4 
> > hence the sort problem. 
> > Can the DB be changed so that the invoice number is right 
> > justified, this means that invoice 900 is now space900 taking 
> > positions 1,2,3,4
> > 
> > 
> > >>> "Stone, Brad V (TC)" <bvstone@taylorcorp.com> 06/06 2:51 PM >>>
> > I'm sure someone has run across this before.
> > 
> > We have a DB that contains a character field which holds an 
> > invoice number.
> > Because it can be used for many of our companies, we had to make it
> > character because some of our companies use character 
> invoice numbers.
> > 
> > Anyhow, the plants that use numeric numbers get the number 
> stripped of
> > leading zeros (this is done automatically by the replication 
> > tool we use).
> > So, it makes the number sort all funky.  (ie 900 is greater 
> > than 1101.)
> > 
> > Is there any way, without having to leave on leading zeros, 
> > to get them to
> > sort correctly?  Probably not, but with the minds on the list 
> > I wouldn't be
> > surprised.  ;)
> > 
> > Brad
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