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Shanmugavel_03
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Location: Wilkes Barre, PA
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Greetings !!!!
I am using the below sort card to sort these three alphanumeric variables. I was expecting an output that 04,05 and 0I will be the order of the output.
But i got the output as 0I,04,05. Now, the question is how does the sort in character format happens in syncsort (do they follow ascii numbers to sort these variables) or (do they follow any pattern to sort these 3 inputs)
//PS0070 EXEC PGM=SYNCSORT
//SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=*
//SYSOUT DD SYSOUT=*
//SORTIN DD *
05
04
0I
//SORTOUT DD SYSOUT=*
//SYSIN DD *
SORT FIELDS=(1,2,CH,A) |
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Craq Giegerich
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Location: Virginia, USA
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| In EBCDIC letters are lower then digits. |
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Robert Sample
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| do they follow ascii numbers to sort these variables |
Guaranteed not -- this is a mainframe, which uses EBCDIC not ASCII. |
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Shanmugavel_03
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| Thanks Robert and Craq for your response.... |
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