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Re: Having problems with a sort...

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From: Owen Green
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 18:43
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> Because I must do the sort on disk  - there could potentially be
> gazillions of these records.
Ah, well I'm just having to go home, but it may interest you to know that if
you change
    myDataString.compareTo(myIndexCompareString) < 0
to
    myDataString.compareTo(myIndexCompareString) > 0

it comes out in perfect reverse order...

Sorry not to be of more help, if you haven't cracked it tomorrow I'll have a
closer play with it...

Owen
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