Sort/select processing when sorting by associated fields

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 12:36:50PM -0500, Kenneth Brody wrote:
> If you have a file with 100 records, and each record has 5 non-blank
> instances of the associated field on which you are sorting, then the
> sort/select processing will be run 500 times, not 100.  It will be
> run for each non-blank instance of the associated field used for the
> sort.  (This allows you to select only certain instances from within
> your sort/select processing.)  If all instances of the field are
> blank within a given record, the first instance will be selected.

That seems like a wart.  Why would it run it once?

Cheers,
-- jra
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