Okay, My first choice was originally to sort the generics last, and since it's good enough for RACF, it's good enough for me.
I wrote a little routine to test the processing out and found that my sort routine can sort between 2 and 1,000 entries fast enough that I can't tell the difference between sorting and not sorting the array. So I guess there is no reason to limit the array to 1,000 entries. Thank you very much for your opinions on this, it was driving me nuts with not being able to decide one way or the other. Thanks again, Brian ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html