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  3. November 2004

Re: Reordering a file

Hi Joe,

> Quick background: I have a menu file (option, program, description) that
> I wanted to appear in the menu by program name.  Quick way out in my
> mind: sort the physical file by program, then use SQL to set the option
> equal to the relative record number - and voila the menu is in
> alphabetical sequence.

Since a menu is usually relatively short, I'd actually load the data into
an array in my program and sort it with qsort(). (Or, SORTA if you're one
of those people who doesn't like qsort)

You could also use QShell's sort command.... or FMTDTA or various APIs...
there are so many ways to sort something, it's just not funny.

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