I tried query of query, but it treats it as a string, not a date.  I just found an 
article that mentions a query sort custom tag I am going to try it now.  I will post 
if I get good results.

Tim

-----Original Message-----
From: Jochem van Dieten [mailto:jochemd@;oli.tudelft.nl]
Sent: Friday, October 25, 2002 8:42 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Re: Verity Ordering Take 2.


Quoting Timothy Heald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> 
> I have 2 Verity indexes I am searching.  They both contain a filed
> date_created, and I have added this field as custom2 to the search. 
> I need to be able to sort by date off of that field. Now it is
> returning the field as a string right now unfortunately.  IS there
> any easy (or even not so easy) way of doing this?  I haven't been
> able to come up with anything yet, I mean I could write a sort that
> would have to basically do 3 bubble sorts on all of the 300,000 or so
> records I am dealing with.  The date is being returned in the format
> dd-mmm-yy or 25-OCT-02.

If you make sure that the date is returned as YYYYMMDD sorting is 
pretty easy. Also, doesn't Verity return a query? Can't you use QofQ?

Jochem

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