Order fields based on the text of the field.

Compare text fields

Compare two fields on the basis of their characters.

Notes

This is a split segment due to the perverse coding practice of embedding the macro at the site of the first call.

Segment Element

Code insertion

1090:       else if (ignore && translate)
1091: 

Segment Element

Code insertion

1139:         CMP_WITH_IGNORE (translate[UCHAR (*texta)], translate[UCHAR (*textb)]);
1140:       else if (ignore)
1141:         CMP_WITH_IGNORE (UCHAR (*texta), UCHAR (*textb));
1142:       else if (translate)
1143:         while (texta < lima && textb < limb)
1144:           {
1145:             if (translate[UCHAR (*texta++)] != translate[UCHAR (*textb++)])
1146:               {
1147:                 diff = (translate[UCHAR (*--texta)]
1148:                         - translate[UCHAR (*--textb)]);
1149:                 break;
1150:               }
1151:           }
1152:       else
1153:         diff = memcmp (texta, textb, min (lena, lenb));
1154: 

Determine final sort order

Code insertion

Use length to resolve an ambigous text comparision.

Segment Source

1155:       if (diff)
1156:         return key->reverse ? -diff : diff;
1157:       if ((diff = lena - lenb) != 0)
1158:         return key->reverse ? -diff : diff;
1159:     }