☜	^%COLLATE^CHARACTER M[UMPS] by Example					☞

Approved for inclusion in a future M[UMPS] language standard as an override mechanism for collating strings.

This function returns the collating value that would apply to a string in the specified environment. The environment specified may be:

• absent, in which case the collating scheme for the current process prevails
• the name of a global variable, in which case the collating scheme for that global variable will be used
• the name of a character set profile, in which case the collating scheme for that character set profile will be used

In the string "ano000060", there are three parts, one for each iteration of the collation algorithm. The first part ("ano") is the "pure" character value, the second part ("000") is the upper/lower case value of the letters, and the third part ("060") is the weight of the diacritical marks.

The MDC has approved code to approximate the return value of this function. Implementors are encouraged to provide more accurate and efficient code). Click here for $%COLLATE^CHARACTER sample code to view or download the code for this function.
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Copyright © Annotations: 2008-2024 Ed de Moel.

The information in this page is NOT authoritative and subject to be modified at any moment.
Please consult the appropriate (draft) language standard for an authoritative definition.

Some specifications are "approved for inclusion in a future standard". Note that the MUMPS Development Committee cannot guarantee that such future standards will indeed be published.

This page most recently updated on 07-Jan-2023, 13:00:57.

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