Nice answer Cetin, but could you reduce it to fewer lines of code. ;-)


This sounds like the right answer to me!!!


>>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:
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>>if (d1 < d2) {return -1;}
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>>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?
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>>TIA, Kevin
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>return d1.CompareTo(d2);
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>Cetin