>Dear Sir/Madam
>
>I am using ATCLINE() command to search a string in a memo feild and then displya all the records that have that string in the memo feild. But I get my result in unordered manner. As memo feild cannot be index is there is any way by which I extract first few character of memo field and then replace them in a
>another field which is a character field and index and sort my records according to that field. Which will give what i want.
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>Please advise if there is less complicated or simpler solution is there or not.
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>Or some modification in my idea to make it simple.
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>Urgent reply requested.
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>Thanks in Advance.
>
>
>Rahul

Something like :
select notes, mline(notes,1) from employee ;
where notes like '%degree%' ;
order by 2

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Cetin