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Re: Queue sorting with German characters, i.e. u and ü
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| Thank you for your suggestion.
Found a better solution - see below.
Regards
Abe Jimenez wrote:
> Actually you can make this work. What you need is to automate the proces=
s=2E
> I would add a BeforeAdd and a BeforeUpdate trigger to the file to
> automatically build the sorter field from the word field. All you need i=
s a[color=darkred]
> loop that will read each character in the word and replace it if necesary.
> For example:
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> FIL:Sorter =3D ''
> Loop I# =3D 1 to Len(Clip(FIL:Word)) by 1
> Case FIL:Word[I#]
> Of =E4
> Fil:Sorter =3D Clip(FIL:Sorter) & 'a'
> Of ..... !Create one of these for each letter you want to replace
> Else
> FIL:Sorter =3D Clip(FIL:Sorter) & FIL:Word[I#]
> End
> End
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> --
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> Regards,
> Abe Jimenez
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> "Gerd" <schmittinger@unitech.co.za> wrote in message
> news:1153824881.767819.166910@h48g2000cwc.googlegroups.com...
> Thank you for the suggestion. Unfortunately it will not work since
> those Umlauts are all over (also inside the words) and to make these
> type of changes about 10,000 times, with new words being added
> continuously it will be an impossible task.
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> Paul S. Person wrote:
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