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- From: clarke@mahakala.wpd.sgi.com (David Clarke)
- Newsgroups: comp.text.frame
- Subject: IgnoreCharsIX
- Message-ID: <1ii6qjINN360@fido.asd.sgi.com>
- Date: 7 Jan 93 21:20:19 GMT
- Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc. Mountain View, CA
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- I'd like to create a standard list of characters to be ignored
- when sorting for an index, but I can foresee occasions where
- a writer *won't* want a character ignored. For instance,
- someone might want /etc/hosts to appear under "/" rather than
- "e", though in the other 99% of the cases she would want the
- "/" ignored for sorting purposes.
-
- I think I've been able to get around this by putting the
- ignored character ("/", in this case) in brackets after the entry,
- like this /etc/hosts[/]. This seems to have the effect of un-
- ignoring the "/" and causing the entry to be sorted under the "/",
- rather than the "e".
-
- However, pessimist that I am, I'm concerned that this solution
- seems just too easy. I haven't found anything in the documentation
- covering this issue. Has anyone else used this or any other solution
- to this problem?
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- David Clarke
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