At 09:16 -0600 on 01/07/2016, Tom Marchant wrote about Re: Sort for not there?:
>We randomly tried every possibility we could think
of and none of them worked. Eventually, we created a checklist and
systematically used an editor FIND function to locate a working
combination. A real PITA and many hours wasted...
I like Robert Rosenberg's solution: sort the file on the first two columns
and look for a suitable gap in the sorted data. Probably a lot quicker than
your checklist.
Thank You. Sometimes you need to think outside the box <g>. I hope
that my Q&D Internal Sort description was understandable. As I noted,
there was no need to do a full sort in lieu of just using a crested
file of the first 2 characters. Having the sorted file parsed by a
program is then the simplest method.
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