If I understand your question correctly, the answer is simply that if the
sort order was ASCII then A-Z would come before a-z. Therefore, "Banana"
would come before "apple". I'm no sure why "-" should be sorted above
"space", maybe because it's treated as a hyphen?
Then again, I might have got the wrong end of the stick because my head is
very fuzzy this morning.
Stephen Byatt
Mr Fuzzy Head
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From: "DeAnna Davidson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Palm Developer Forum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, October 06, 2000 3:23 AM
Subject: Palm Sort Order
> OK, maybe I'm a little slow or I missed something. I've got an app whose
> .pdbs are made on the PC, and the databases are sorted by a particular
> field. The ascii code for a space is 20 and the ascii code for a dash is
> 2D. So, logically, if a the same word is in a field followed by a space,
I
> put it before the word followed by a dash. However, I've noticed on the
> Palm, for instance in the Address Book, if a word is entered followed by a
> dash and the same word is entered followed by a space, the one with the
dash
> comes before the one with the space. The bottom line to this is that, of
> course, using StrCaselessCompare or TxtCaselessCompare, a search gets all
> messed up. Any insights into why Palm doesn't just use ascii sort order?
>
> DeAnna
>
>
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