https://brwiki2.brulescorp.com/brwiki2/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Collate_Alternate 2026-05-11T21:05:23Z Revision history for this page on the wiki MediaWiki 1.41.0 https://brwiki2.brulescorp.com/brwiki2/index.php?title=Collate_Alternate&diff=10954&oldid=prev 2018-07-28T15:53:48Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 15:53, 28 July 2018</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1">Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The '''Collate Alternate''' [[BRConfig.sys]] file's COLLATE ALTERNATE specification allows <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">a parameter, "filename", </del>to be <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">specified. When this syntax is used, Business Rules! will use the character sequence </del>in <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the specified file </del>as the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">alternate </del>collating sequence<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">. The specified sequence must be 255 characters</del>. This collating sequence will be used whenever OPTION COLLATE ALTERNATE is specified in programs or when A (for alternate collating sequence) is specified with the sort control file's FILE specification.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The '''Collate Alternate''' [[BRConfig.sys]] file's COLLATE ALTERNATE specification allows <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">for string comparisons </ins>to be <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">done </ins>in <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">ascii while treating numbers </ins>as <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">though they followed alphabet characters in </ins>the collating sequence. This <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">revised </ins>collating sequence will be used whenever OPTION COLLATE ALTERNATE is specified in programs or when A (for alternate collating sequence) is specified with the sort control file's FILE specification.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">CONFIG COLLATE ALTERNATE </del>filename has been removed with version [[4.16]]</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">An optional </ins>filename has been removed <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">from CONFIG COLLATE ALTERNATE </ins>with version [[4.16]] <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Instead the default ALTERNATE table is used which simply moves the digits 0 - 9 above the alphabet ( starting in position 176 or x'B0' ). This rather crude translation is sufficient for most program logic that depended upon the EBCDIC character set. The data in the BR programs is processed in ascii with the exception of the relocated digits. </ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>====See Also====</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>====See Also====</div></td></tr> </table>

Gordon.dye https://brwiki2.brulescorp.com/brwiki2/index.php?title=Collate_Alternate&diff=2292&oldid=prev 2013-03-26T22:48:08Z

<p>Created page with &quot;The &#039;&#039;&#039;Collate Alternate&#039;&#039;&#039; <a href="/brwiki2/index.php?title=BRConfig.sys" class="mw-redirect" title="BRConfig.sys">BRConfig.sys</a> file&#039;s COLLATE ALTERNATE specification allows a parameter, &quot;filename&quot;, to be specified. When this syntax is used, Business Rules! ...&quot;</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>The &#039;&#039;&#039;Collate Alternate&#039;&#039;&#039; [[BRConfig.sys]] file&#039;s COLLATE ALTERNATE specification allows a parameter, &quot;filename&quot;, to be specified. When this syntax is used, Business Rules! will use the character sequence in the specified file as the alternate collating sequence. The specified sequence must be 255 characters. This collating sequence will be used whenever OPTION COLLATE ALTERNATE is specified in programs or when A (for alternate collating sequence) is specified with the sort control file&#039;s FILE specification.<br /> <br /> CONFIG COLLATE ALTERNATE filename has been removed with version [[4.16]]<br /> <br /> ====See Also====<br /> *[[Collate]]<br /> <br /> &lt;noinclude&gt;<br /> [[Category:Config]]<br /> &lt;/noinclude&gt;</div>

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