RE: sort non-roman character strings last

2011-10-25 Thread themanwho
Jay, Thanks, good call on the pattern. Still, my embedded question: if a field is filtered down to a zero-length string, does this qualify as "missing" so far as sortMissingLast is concerned? If not, your suggestion should work fine -- appreciated!! Cheers, Bill -- View this message in context:

Re: Sorting by article title

2011-10-05 Thread themanwho
OK, I'm going to answer my own question -- it was probably so obvious that nobody else wanted answer such an easy one! I simply needed to apply after instead of before, as I had it originally. Otherwise "the\s" and "a\s" is never matched! Hope this maybe helps somebody else...

Sorting by article title

2011-10-05 Thread themanwho
Hi all! I have documents, all of which have a title, and I would like to sort by that title. The catch is, I wish to sort ignoring any "A" or "The" at the beginning of the title. My first (and only) attempt is by creating a type that looks like: