[Newbies] Case insensitive string sort.

Blake blake at kingdomrpg.com
Fri Mar 2 08:16:54 UTC 2007


On Thu, 01 Mar 2007 18:50:13 -0800, Ron Teitelbaum <Ron at USMedRec.com>  
wrote:

> Here's the trick!  It is 1 asCharacter.  If you separate your attributes  
> by a value that guaranteed to sort to the top you can make one big  
> string and use it to sort.

Done it for years--not in Smalltalk--usually using a hex zero.

Got that trick from my Dad, who used to do it in PL/I. :-)


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