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Why is record in combobox not alphabetically arranged?
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Why is record in combobox not alphabetically arranged?

Why is record in combobox not alphabetically arranged?

(OP)
Hi everyone... i have these code in Load procedure....

SELECT PADR(ALLTRIM(UPPER(sname)) + ", " + ALLTRIM(fname),25), idnum FROM tsulat ORDER BY sname, fname INTO CURSOR PgBseCbo

my question is, why is it not showing alpabetically in the dropdown list, not all but some of the record are not in proper order? did i miss something? Thanks and God bless...

RE: Why is record in combobox not alphabetically arranged?

Sorting by collation sequence MACHINE is the usuual sorting, unless you defined special collations for fields. It sorts English okay, may only fail on some special characters with diacritics or umlauts, for example. Most likely, you also get Names starting with lowercase letters after names starting with uppercase letters, as 'a' has a byte value of 97 while 'Z' has 90. So all lowercase letter are sorted after all uppercase letters, too, even when you only use the English/Latin 26 letters without any accents, etc.

Chriss

RE: Why is record in combobox not alphabetically arranged?

Just to follow up Chris's reply, you might need to issue a SET COLLATE command immediately before the SELECT. For example, if you have Spanish names in the table, and the names might include characters such as Ñ or any accented letter, then you should do SET COLLATE TO "SPANISH".

Mike

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RE: Why is record in combobox not alphabetically arranged?

(OP)
Thank you Mike, Chris, Mj for always helping.. God bless....

Ok I'll Try putting collate... Thanks again...

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