Patrick O'Keefe wrote on 02/19/2009 12:38:21 PM: > A more revealing test might have included addresses like > 151.123.111.5 > 151.123.111.125 > 151.123.111.43 > where numeric and character sort orders would have been different. > The desired order would have been > 151.123.111.5 > 151.123.111.43 > 151.123.111.125
You're right. I just threw in some sample data without thinking about that aspect of it. Note that the DFSORT job I supplied does give the correct output for your "better" sample data. Frank Yaeger - DFSORT Development Team (IBM) - [email protected] Specialties: FINDREP, WHEN=GROUP, DATASORT, ICETOOL, Symbols, Migration => DFSORT/MVS is on the Web at http://www.ibm.com/storage/dfsort/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
