Re: a * question

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2003


It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 54084
interpreted = N
texte = On Fri, 14 Nov 2003, Kenneth Grome wrote: >> > if it's returning the proper records and only the sort order is > apparently incorrect, the issue may be nothing more than webcat's > understanding of the priority of letters in an alphabetical search. > Or is your sorting done as date or num? > no.... what happens is that a field i'm sorting on has one possible value "something*here", all other possible values are either one word or words separated by comma... when the search executes i get something like this: something*here alpha beta something*here gamma x y something*here zakk wylde zorro and his mom play chess on saturdays ..................... which doesn't make sense. i already checked for spaces or other 'invisible' stuff that can make them 'different' but even if there were such things the order above still doesn't make sense... thanks... > ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/ Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

    
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On Fri, 14 Nov 2003, Kenneth Grome wrote: >> > if it's returning the proper records and only the sort order is > apparently incorrect, the issue may be nothing more than webcat's > understanding of the priority of letters in an alphabetical search. > Or is your sorting done as date or num? > no.... what happens is that a field i'm sorting on has one possible value "something*here", all other possible values are either one word or words separated by comma... when the search executes i get something like this: something*here alpha beta something*here gamma x y something*here zakk wylde zorro and his mom play chess on saturdays ..................... which doesn't make sense. i already checked for spaces or other 'invisible' stuff that can make them 'different' but even if there were such things the order above still doesn't make sense... thanks... > ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/ Kalin Mintchev

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