Re: Simple disk-based sorting method

Citizen Bob wrote:

> I have a disk file which contains 370,260 records of average length 60
> ASCII text characters. I need to sort them on the first 9 characters,
> which are set off from the rest by a space. 
> 
> Once sorted the first record looks like
> 100100100 08:35-08:39 4 0 0 1 -115 -1 75 -100 dd17.txt
> and the last one looks like
> 500900900 12:41-13:25 44 1 885 0 0 1 925 -200 dd21.txt


What's wrong with im****ting it into Excel?



Paul...