Re: SORTA ignoring field sign

["John McKay" <jmckay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Can you give the full definition of the array ...

Regards,
John McKay
www.rpglanguage.com

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve McKay" <steve.mckay@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Newsgroups: midrange.rpg400-l
To: <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2008 8:54 PM
Subject: SORTA ignoring field sign


> Greetings!
>
> I'm using SORTA to sort a DS arrary containing both positive and negative 
> numbers (the field is 11P  2).  The resulting data appears to ignore the 
> sign, that is the items are returned in this order:
> 58,656.27-
> 32,714.07-
> 26,773.81
> 15,668.28
> 2,765.95-
> .00
>
> (Note that this is not all of the data, just a representative subset.)
>
> What is it that SORTA does that causes this?  Is it sorting on hex values 
> rather than numeric?  Or is there something going on that I'm not aware 
> of? What other options do I have to sort in numeric sequence?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Steve
>
> --
> This is the RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries (RPG400-L) mailing list
> To post a message email: RPG400-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options,
> visit: http://lists.midrange.com/mailman/listinfo/rpg400-l
> or email: RPG400-L-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives
> at http://archive.midrange.com/rpg400-l.