On Fri, 14 Apr 2006 16:14:49 -0700 (PDT), Prof. Stevan Djuranovic wrote:
>>Store the position in the sequence in the table and use a >lookup field to
>>convert to/from the "displayed" value.
>>--
>>Regards,
>>Allan JM Smith
>>(Northwood, Middlesex, England)
>
> I thought about that.
> But what if there are more data begining with same letter? I need to sort
> them
> by second letter, third, etc.
You could always encode the string so the correct sequence for the encoded
string is alphabetic ...
VAR Convert : ARRAY [' '..'~', Boolean] OF CHAR = ('.........',
'..........');
X : Char;
// space to ~ are the printable characters from 32 to 126 ... you may want to
// encode differently. Fill the strings as appropriate
Encode with
X := Convert [X, TRUE];
Decode with
X := Convert [X, FALSE];
--
Regards,
Allan JM Smith
(Northwood, Middlesex, England)
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