Alpha Sort - ignore certain characters

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2003


It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 52695
interpreted = N
texte = Greetings! I want to do a nice simple sort of a bunch of song titles. No problem, except that certain songs begin with an apostrophe or a quotation mark or some other non-alpha character, i.e.: 'Round About Autumn So is there a way to make this product come up with the other "R" products where it belongs, instead of at the beginning of the list? Any way to tell the sort to ignore certain characters? Thanks. -- James P. Ziegler Director of Web Services Plank Road Publishing www.musick8.com www.resourcefulclassroom.com ------------------------------------------------------------- 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:

    
  1. Re: Alpha Sort - ignore certain characters ( James Ziegler 2003)
  2. Re: Alpha Sort - ignore certain characters ( Donovan 2003)
  3. Re: Alpha Sort - ignore certain characters ( Charles Kline 2003)
  4. Alpha Sort - ignore certain characters ( James Ziegler 2003)
Greetings! I want to do a nice simple sort of a bunch of song titles. No problem, except that certain songs begin with an apostrophe or a quotation mark or some other non-alpha character, i.e.: 'Round About Autumn So is there a way to make this product come up with the other "R" products where it belongs, instead of at the beginning of the list? Any way to tell the sort to ignore certain characters? Thanks. -- James P. Ziegler Director of Web Services Plank Road Publishing www.musick8.com www.resourcefulclassroom.com ------------------------------------------------------------- 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/ James Ziegler

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