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Member Name in Alphanumeric Order ?

Dec 19, 2004 2:45AM PST

Hi
Can any of you please tell me what Alphanumeric order means, its to do with choosing a member name to join a forum?
Excuse my ignorance Happy

Bron

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Alphanumeric = A to Z then 0 to 9
Dec 19, 2004 3:06AM PST

The term "alphanumeric" would typically mean, from the name itself, that words are sorted by the letters of the alphabet significance (letter A is before letter B, etc.) and then after the Z the numbers are given significance, with 0 being the first number on up to 9.

However, most systems that have alphanumeric sequence generally have the numbers first. For those systems a better term might be "numerbetical" or "numberalphabetical" or something like that.
(But that is just my opinion, they call it whatever they want.)

There is another method, and I sort of coined the term, "ASCIIbetical" which follows the ASCII value assigned to every character (Google: ASCII) and the lowest values have the higher significance.

Thus, the sequence is like this:
!"#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@ABC...XYZ[\]^_`abc...xyz{|}~
(I replaced some sequence of characters in the alphabet with "..." ellipsis characters here).

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Hi Chuck.
Dec 19, 2004 6:07AM PST

Well i never!Happy All that just to join a forum?

Let me explain, i need to download a free utility but i have to register first, why don't they keep it simple like for example here, my name Brona???

If i register with my name in alphanumeric order it isn't a name at all? or am i missing something here?

To be honest Chuck i don't understand.

Thank you for your help, i appreciate it.

Bron

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Thank you Chuck, i did it.
Dec 19, 2004 7:40AM PST

Just to let you know i have finally sorted out the problem, i now have the ecard utility.

Thank you and a merry Christmas to you.

Bron