SORT function in REXX. Clarification needed.

technut · New User Joined: 27 Dec 2007 Posts: 73 Location: India

Please review the below article.
It mentions about SORT function in REXX which sorts a STEM record delimited by space, for eg

Newrecd.1 = ws-var1 1000
Newrecd.2 = ws-var2 400

SORT Newrecd. B A

/* The article claims that, the above sort command will sort the stem array "Newrecd." delimited by space in the order needed. It says, we can specify the order of sort with the help of characters from A-Z , with A being the first varable, B the second variable and so on. Thus, it claims that the above command will yeild below results. */

Newrecd.2 = ws-var2 400
Newrecd.2 = ws-var2 1000

The ARTICLE:
www.ulisoft.org/rexx_referenz/sort.htm

I just wanted to know whether, whatever this article claims is valid or not, because when I tried using this command in REXX, it does not work.

Is there any such command available in rexx which will sort a stem variable delimited by space?

superk · Posted: Thu Dec 04, 2008 5:19 pm

The very first sentence of that document

enrico-sorichetti · Posted: Thu Dec 04, 2008 5:20 pm

it all depends on the rexx implementaton an add on functions
if You read carefully the page You will see that in the first line there is
a clear refernece to Reginald rexx

the article is right as far reginald rexx is concerned,
does not apply to other rexx implementations ( different from wrong )

technut · New User Joined: 27 Dec 2007 Posts: 73 Location: India

Oops...Thanks for the clarification!

ofer71 · Posted: Thu Dec 04, 2008 5:45 pm

There's a nice REXX SORT function in CBT file 520.

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technut · New User Joined: 27 Dec 2007 Posts: 73 Location: India

CBT file 520? Could you clarify?

ofer71 · Posted: Thu Dec 04, 2008 6:14 pm

Look here.

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technut · New User Joined: 27 Dec 2007 Posts: 73 Location: India

Thanks a lot... Its really useful...