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Appendix E Data Types When you sort or merge data with SORT-MERGE/XL, your sorting key is one of many data types. This appendix explained the format of SORT-MERGE/XL's generic data types and gives language equivalents of them. For more information about data types, refer to Data Types Conversion Programmer's Guide (32650-90015). In HPSORTINIT or HPMERGEINIT you specify the type of data that is sorted by your keys. The data type is given in the third element of the keys parameter array. For more information about specifying keys, refer to Chapter 2. This appendix tells you the language equivalents of SORT-MERGE/XL generic data types. It covers the following languages: * HP Business BASIC * HP C/XL * HP COBOL II/XL * HP FORTRAN 77/XL * HP Pascal The following tables show the keys parameter value for each SORT-MERGE/XL data type. For example, 0 is specified in the keys parameter array if the key is ASCII or EBCDIC byte type.