Re: sort problem in XY3 !!! SOLVED !!!

["Patricia M. Godfrey" priscamg@xxxxxxxx]

Carl Distefano wrote:
> The four basic options are:
>
> SK=0 sort letter-by-letter ("Newark" before "New York")
> SK=1 sort word-by-word ("New York" before "Newark")
> SK=2 reverse sort
> SK=4 delete duplicates
>
> But note that these basic values can be combined by addition, thus:
This is/was in Xy 3, right? Because the CRG of 4 says that SK=0 results
in sorting numbers by the first digit (01,10,2,3), SK=1 results in
sorting numbers by decimal order (01,2,3,10), =2 sorts in reverse order,
and 4 deletes duplicates. No option for letter by letter, which is what
I always want (often what I'm trying to find out is which words are set
solid and which are two words: is it New Castle or Newcastle?). I
created a sort table that does that, and included accented letters, but
I've just realized I must have done that back in CP 473 days, so I have
to revise it to 850.
> a far cry from the carlish
> connotations of the Teutonic etymon.
Ah, yes. the fortunes of carle The original Teutonic root meant
'man' (vir not homo). In eastern branches it acquired royal
connotations, so that when Hungarian and Slavic borrowed it (Karol,
Karoly) it came to mean 'king.' (The last Austro-Hungarian Emperor was
Karoly Karl to his Hungarian subjects.) But in English it got conflated
with churl and came to mean a peasant. But an Icelander with whom
I once worked told me that the cognomen of one of the Icelandic settlers
of Vineland, Thorfinn Karlseffni, meant "man-stuff."


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Patricia M. Godfrey
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