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Re: Partial equality match and sort order




John asked on 03/10/2003:
> > Does locale sort ordering solve it? I thought that partial match
> > sorts were unspecified?
>
> What are partial matches?


Doug does not mean partial in the sense of "some matched, some did not".  He seems to just be taking about substring ordering (at least if you follow his examples).  If there is something else then I too missed it.

Bruce
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