Re: Sort Sequence on a LF

<< >
 > Question : How can I change this sort sequence to sort :
 >
 > *blanks, a, A,1, 10, 21, 200 ?
 >
  >>

My apologies if this was already mentioned, but, what about using a varying 
alpha field?  That way, a string length of 0 (*blanks) comes before a string 
length of 1 (a, A), which comes before a string length of 2 (10, 21), etc.

If you're on a version of RPG that doesn't directly support varying fields, 
you could either:

1. make the field varying in the file definition and use a DS to map the 
string length after %Trim into an integer/binary field at the beginning of 
the field with the string following...

2. add a numeric field that would contain the length of the string after 
%Trim and change the LF to include the numeric field ahead of the string.

-Pete
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