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Re: sorting

Angela,

>The numerics are taking
>precedence.  They say it is sorting ascii.  I thought ascii sort was
>alpha/numeric also???

In ASCII, numerics are in the range of x30 - x39, uppercase letters are x41-x5A,
and lowercase letters are x61-x7A.  Many of the common symbols are below x30,
thus preceding the numerics.  A space is x20.

It most definately has a much different collating order than EBCDIC.

Doug

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