On Wed, 24 Jan 2018, Ken Stephens wrote:
Hidden characters. Check to see with od what characters are in those paragraphs that give you trouble.
Ken, That's a thought. The data are from an exported .csv file so there shouldn't be any hidden characters. As a test, I moved the first three paragraphs to the end of the list and resorted. Again, the words on the first line prior to the opening parenthesis were deleted from the top three paragraphs. The paragraphs were formed from single lines using a one-line awk program. The parsimonious solution is to do the sorting on the single lines, then run them through the awk program to format each into a distict group. Thanks, Rich _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
