Bth DFSORT and SYNCHSORT can do this for you. Concatenate <record>(1,1) to <record>(2,*).
Combining this operation with a substantive sort would of course be desirable. Invoking a sort to strip a leading blank is a little heavy handed. John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
