You mean somefunc? Yes. But I would end up with 21 sort fields.

>What I call yourfuncx() could probably be inline functions.

>>>I suggest that you select into a cursor, something like this semicode

>>>Select *,;
>>>  somefunc1(yourfield) as sort1,;
>>>  somefunc2(yourfield) as sort2,;
>>>  somefunc3(yourfield) as sort3,;
>>>  somefunc4(yourfield) as sort4;
>>>  from yourtable into cursor yourcursor order by sort1,sort2,sort3,sort4