BE_ValuesSort ( listOfValues {; ascendingBoolean ; type } )
Sorts a value list in alphanumeric order.
Version : 2.1
Version : 3.3 Added the ascending and type parameters.
Parameters :
listOfValues : The list of values to sort.
ascending : defaults to True, False for descending.
type : a number corresponding to the value for different types. At the moment, only two values are defined : 0 for text and 1 for Numeric.
Result : The sorted list.
In some situations this sort order won't be the same as the order that FileMaker would apply in a sorted field. Different encoding and "type" arrangements treat values in different ways, so there's no expectation that the BE sort will be the same as the FM one - the technical details into why this is gets really complex as you get into text encoding and storage and values and ....
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