>>Hi everybody,
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>>In the compound index I use BINTOC function to convert everything to string. So my index expression will look like:
>>ccode+town+street+bintoc(stNum)+StNumExt... where stNum is Numeric 4. However, we found, that it sorts things incorrectly, e.g. 109 appears before 84. So, does it mean, what this function could not be used or I have some sort of data corruption...?
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>>Thanks in advance.
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>Are you sure ? If your stNums <= 0x7FFFFFFF then it'd sort right.
>Cetin

What is 0x7FFFFFFF in decimal? My manager showed me, that 109 was sorted prior to 89. I haven't examined it closely, but it seems, like they were sorted incorrectly. So, does it mean, what BINTOC() doesn't work correctly with numbers or I need to investigate this problem for the particular file?

Here is an index expression: UPPER(STR(galleysort,3)+registry+city+STR(recgrp,1)+street+BINTOC(stnum,2)+stnumext+unit) I see by my own, what 109 preceeds 89.