startPosition

Type: Integer

The startPosition property of the SortActor class contains the start position from the beginning of the record or field in a file that is to be compared.

In fixed‑length files, any carriage return (CR) or line feed (LF) character is included in the length of the field or record.

The default values for the startPosition property are listed in the following table.

Variable Records,

Variable Fields

Variable Records,

Fixed Fields

Fixed Records,

Variable Fields

Fixed Records,

Fixed Fields

1 1 1 1