| Field names |
Name of the field on the stream. |
| Ascending |
Specify Y to sort in ascending order.
Specify N to sort in descending order. |
| Case sensitive compare? |
Specify Y to sort by case usage. Specify
N to ignore case. |
| Sort based on current locale? |
Specify Y to sort based on the system's current
locale. Specify N to sort based on a standard
UTF-8. |
| Collator strength |
If you selected Y for Sort
based on current locale?, specify an integer between
0 and 3 that defines what type of
conditional differences govern or override when performing a sort. Exact
definitions of each strength vary by locale.
- 0
- Primary. Common example:
a vs b
Case and accents of the letter
are not considered.
- 1
- Secondary. Common example:
a vs รค
Accents are considered
different, but case is not considered.
- 2
- Tertiary. Common example:
A vs a
Case sensitive compare.
- 3
- Identical. Strings must be identical. Example:
\u0001 vs \u0002
Non-printable
control characters are considered different.
|
| Presorted? |
Select Y if the data in this field is
already sorted. Presorting improves sort efficiency. If you select Y, this field
must be either the first, or among the first set of fields in the list. Click
Presorted? to sort and move all the presorted fields to
the top of the table. Select N if the data in this field is
not sorted. |