Review files-numerical data

["Davey ,Mr Paul" <p.davey@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear All

I've been using review files happily and getting what I want out of them
with no problems for a long time, but this very simple request has got me
foxed.

We have a simple numerical sequence of 12000 books. Number goes into the
item record in our local SHELFMARK field (tag 949) and is not prefixed or
suffixed in any way. e.g.:

949       1

If I want to retrieve the first 8000 of them, I figure I can just create an
item file, search by shelfmark, between 1 and 8000.
But the Innopac seems unable to treat the data as numerical and finds far
more records than I want. 
And when I try to sort by shelfamrk, the result is in computer numerical
order:

949      1
949      10
949      100
949	2
949	20

or something along those lines.
Why is my search going wrong? And how, how can I get the records into normal
numerical order, i.e. 1, 2, 3 ....?

Paul Davey
Cataloguing Services Manager
Collection Management
Wellcome Library
183 Euston Road
London NW1 2BE
(+44) 020-7611-8493
p.davey@xxxxxxxxxx
The Wellcome Trust is a registered charity, no.210183.
Its sole Trustee is the Wellcome Trust Limited, a company
registered in England, no. 2711000, whose registered office is 183 Euston
Road, London NW1 2BE.





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