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shravan
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Hello all,

This question is about WebFOCUS way of sorting. It appears WebFOCUS sorts strings based on something other than standard alphabetization. For instance, business name in ascending order puts "WOOD BROTHERS" before "Wilson Enterprises" . "UPTOWN AUTO" is listed before "Unique Auto". The names in upper case letters are listed before the names in lower case letters. Is there a setting somewhere so that names are sorted alphabetically irrespective of case(lower / upper).

Thanks.

Shravan

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GinnyJakes
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Create another sort field where you convert the 'printed' field to all one case, either lower or upper. Then do a BY with the NOPRINT option using that field. That should work for you.

As for your question, if you look at an ASCII table, you will see that the capital letters have lower values than their lower case equivalents. That is why they sort before. In EBCDIC, it is the other way around.


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A sort is a sort is a sort, but only if you understand the rules that the particular OS that
you are using uses.

Ginny hit it right on the head.

Windows ASCII A before a B before a, Z before a.

If you want a case insensitive sort everything must be in the same case.

If you want a case insensitive WHERE every thing must be in the same case.

If you want to see things in mixed case but displayed in strict grammatical order as opposed to computer order as part of a sort compute the column using NOPRINT and use BY TOTAL column.
 
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