>Hi Hilmar
>
>I finally skimmed through all the UT mags. The neatest trick of all was your ordering records bit.
>
>SELECT ..., at(Code, "QWER") as OrderField
>
>That can be expanded to handle multi-string codes too. Assuming code is 5 chars with no spaces...
>
>select INT(AT("," + code + ",",",ABCDE,12345,FGHIJ,67890,") / 5 + 1) + 1 as OrderField
>
>I believe a UDF could be made for this, making it easier to use it in several similar queries. I would not make it very general purpose as it would add significant overhead with parameter checking etc.
>
>Something like this...
>
>UDFCodeOrder.PRG
>RETURN INT(AT("," + code + ",",",PEARS,12345,APPLE,ORANG,") / 5 + 1) + 1
>
>With the query being
>
>select UDFCodeOrder() as OrderField
>
>Agreed?

Mike,
I haven't tried it but I think creating an array and doing ascan() would be faster and neater. ie:

alines(aOrder,"ABCDE,12345,FGHIJ,67890",.t.,",")
select ascan(aOrder,code,1,-1,1,15) as OrderField...


Cetin