Posted: Thu Sep 02, 2004 1:37 am Post subject: Sort on date by padding with century
Hi all,
I have to sort a file according to a date field in YYMMDD format in ascending order. The date field type is charecter. I am giving input and expected output
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INPUT DATE FIELD
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011203
041113
990303
990404
001001
040202
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EXPECTED OUTPUT
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990303
990404
001001
011203
040202
041113
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The ordinary sort wont work in this case as if i give sort fiedls = (1,6,ch,a) it will give 001001 before 990303. I cannot convert it first to a format of CCYYMMDD as the next step after this is a cobol pgm which expects YYMMDD format. I have to accomplish this with sort. I cannot use quick job or easytrieve.
Please tell me how to do this using syncsort.
Thanks
bade_miya.
Hi all,
I got the answer from the manual itself. We have to give the following sort step just in case if any one wants to know.
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SORT FIELDS=(11646,06,Y2T,A),
CENTWIN=1950
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As i have given CENTWIN=1950, it will sort the dates according to this century window.
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example from the manual
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For example, consider the century window 1950 through 2049. The 2-digit year
fields would be processed as follows:
Two-digit Field in i/p Processed as Year
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00--------------------- 2000
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