I Have gone back to the ArrayList sorting problems I had a couple of weeks ago, and implemented the workaround of a sort of C# equivalent to VFP's DTOS(). However, the following line fails to compile:
if (d1 < d2) {return -1;}
with error "Operator '<' cannot be applied to operands of type 'string' and 'string'". d1 and d2 are both strings in the format "20041104" and "20041130". So how should I be testing if d1 is less than d2?