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datastager · Post by **datastager** » Fri Oct 12, 2007 6:50 am

Ray thanks for taking time and explaining the code.
It is for sure a master piece.
Thanks again.

jdmiceli,
I just tried it on a small subset of data, I was pretty fast.
I will let you know the performance with larger volumes.

jdmiceli · Post by **jdmiceli** » Fri Oct 12, 2007 7:32 am

Thanks, Gents!

I appreciate the replies and look forward to seeing how it works on a really large set. I'm interested because I have a similar issue on one of the teams I work with and I'm wondering how best to address it.

Bestest!

chulett · Post by **chulett** » Fri Oct 12, 2007 7:42 am

jdmiceli wrote:I'm interested because I have a similar issue on one of the teams I work with and I'm wondering how best to address it.

ray.wurlod wrote:Remember that this function is sorting a delimited list of city names for each record processed - it is not sorting the file.

Not sure why you would want to consider an external call in this situation.

jdmiceli · Post by **jdmiceli** » Fri Oct 12, 2007 7:48 am

Strictly due to ignorance on my part.

I'm not very familiar with routines and coding in DS Basic yet. I have yet to get something to work correctly (I'm working on one right now for a project). So, depending on the deadline I had to meet, I would sometimes have no choice but to use what I knew. I'm trying to learn to do it the 'right' way and I continue to learn from you guys here on this site.

Bestest!