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From: roy@alanine.phri.nyu.edu (Roy Smith)
Newsgroups: bionet.molbio.genbank
Subject: Sorting order in .idx files
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Date: 30 Aug 90 17:09:17 GMT
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	How are the .idx files on GenBank tapes sorted?  More specifically,
if I want to do a keyword binary search through the .idx files, and I use
the standard Unix strcmp(3) routine for comparing my key with the keys from
the file, will I be guaranteed to get the same sorting order as was used to
prepare the files?
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