On Thu, 15 Nov 2001 19:37:13 +0100, Stefan Schmiedl <s at xss.de> wrote:

> sorting the <title> field strings will work, even
> if they have different lengths. Access to the <name>
> field is only necessary if the <title> field of the
> records in question is identical, hence has the same
> length. So sorting the name field only occurs with
> identical "prefixes", which have no effect on sort order.

The only reason you can get away with that is because $, has an ascii value
of less than alphabetic characters. If you used $| as the separater, it
wouldn't work in some cases.

I wouldn't want to trust a sort algorithm like that in any application I
cared about...

Later,
Jon

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