Neville.
My example was only to show that the sort command still maintains the ability
to accept concatenated sort criteria. This allows a single line of code to do
the work, and obviates the need for multiple sorts. In that sense it was a bad
example to use character "places" in a string.
Ralph: Interesting. Your code works as you present it, sorting the given items
by the sortkey function f1 which adds 1 to each item. I do get the “sorting
failed” dialog.
But if I try the same thing using myVal modified as you suggest, which adds the
first and second items of each line of data
