Sorting Dates

[shamilton]

I am to write a Rexx program that will sort a list of dates (located in a text file, entered at the command line) in ascending order beginning with the year, then month, then day. The dates in the text file will be integers in the format: DD (space) MM (space) YYYY, and each date will be on a separate line. I am a total newbie to Rexx, so any assistance with this would be much appreciated!

Thanks,
Seth

 

[bobham]

A good sort routine is in Charles Daney's book on REXX.

bobh

 

[Guest_imported]

Why you don't call DFSORT. Need an example? (ServiceProfessional@web.de)
Don't do EVERYTHING in REXX, even it is possible. to sort several 10000 records you will have a very expensive result (about CPU-time).

Heinz

 

[bobham]

One thing about Syncsort; you can write the exit pgms in REXX. This is very handy in
some cases.

bobh