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

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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