> In Yahoo address book, they have this list for finding a particular
> person easily
> by the first letter of their last name:
>
> All - A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z - Lists
>
> Does anyone have any insights on how the algorithm of implementing this
> feature?
>
> For example, I have a user database, and I want to use this feature to
> find persons whose last name start with a particular letter.
How are you storing the people's names?
If it's one field then you're stuffed - if you've got it broken into Title,
FirstName, Surname then it's dead easy (just check the left hand letter of
the surname)
Philip Arnold
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