Sorting Problem

[Brian Reynolds]

I have struck a problem with sorting - I am using ARRAY SORT.

I am sorting a list of race horses into alphabetical order and all works okay.

But now someone has named a horse <'tis Lovely> and I can't get it to ignore the apostrophe and sort on the first letter, the t.

Can anyone offer some assistance as my nerwspaper list looks a bit rididulous with 'tis Lovely coming before Angus Bull.

Brian.

[Eric Pearson]

Brian --

I'd create a second string array, with the same number of elements as the original. Write a simple loop (FOR/NEXT or whatever) to copy all of the strings from one array to the other, but trim leading characters like the apostrophe as they are copied. Then do an ARRAY SORT on the new punctuation-less array, and TAGARRAY the original array so that it gets sorted into the same order.

-- Eric

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[This message has been edited by Eric Pearson (edited February 14, 2000).]

[Brian Reynolds]

Thank you, Eric.

I had instant success.

Regards,
Brian.


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