Sorting An Array With Special Characters
I have an Array with a lot of names, i.e. of cities. Now I want to sort it, but the names with special characters in it, like ", , , , , , , , " of course do not enter in the right position.
Anybody got an idea, how I could build a function to sort these names in the alfabetical order as they have to be - without changing them. That means "Zrich" has to be spelled as it is.
Is this possible?
Any ideas apreciated.
Fritz
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Posted on: 12-27-2003, 12:24 PM
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