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Sort Doesn't Recognize Commas, Other Punctuat |
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WordPerfect® 5.1 for DOS
Problem
Symptoms: Sorting and selecting a merge file doesn't recognize the comma as a word delimiter. There is no documentation that says anything about commas in select strings or as delimiters. Also, when using the Sort and Select feature, words ending with a quotation mark or an apostrophe are not recognized. For example, assume the select string is the word keyboard. If the word keyboard has a quote at the end (keyboard"), that word will not be selected when running Sort. Solutions: The only punctuation that Sort will ignore is the comma. All others like semicolons, periods, question marks, colons, and quotes are recognized, so the select function will select the records that contain them. With this in mind, customer can use the following example for sorting information: the select statement key1=oremut will pulled out the second record in a file that reads orem,ut. *Note: If a customer has a comma in the Select statement of a Sort, a blank screen will be returned. For example, the statement Select: Key1=Orem,Ut will return a blank screen. |
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