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EXPAND (continued)

EXPAND Numbers in SELECT Statements (continued)

Order of Terms in EXPAND Displays

The terms in an EXPAND display appear in sorted order according to the index. The character sort order for index entries is as follows:

In Additional Indexes that are numerically indexed, the entries in an EXPAND display are in numeric order following the field prefix code.

• Punctuation precedes letters in EXPAND:

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Ref   Items  Index-term
E1        1  A/P22S-6 PRESSURE SUITS
E2        1  A/RBURST
E3        0 *A/S
E4        1  A/S 32 K-4 TRUCKS
E5        1  A/S32K-5 TRUCKS
E6        1  A/WS/33
E7     1743  AA
E8        2  AA SIZE CELLS
E9        1  AA(ACTUAL ASSIGNMENT)
E10       1  AA(ADAPTIVE ARRAYS)
E11       1  AA-34 DIRECT CURRENT AMPLIFIER
E12     140  AAA
....

• Numbers in the Basic Index are sequenced by left-most digit:

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Ref   Items  Index-term
E1       13  10ZR
E2        1  10ZRC
E3    64282 *100
E4        1  100 KV RANGE
E5        1  100 MBIT/S INTEGRATED DIGITAL RING NETWORK
E6        1  100 MEGABIT/SEC DATA RATES
E7        6  100 YEAR FLOOD
E8        1  100-B SURFACE EFFECT SHIPS
E9        1  100-B VESSEL
E10       1  100% ALNANES
E11       2  100% TURBINE TRIP
E12     143  100A
....

(File 6: NTIS: National Technical Information Service)

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