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Originally posted by: rboccuzziWithout seeing your data, I am just going to guess, but I suspect it might be one of two issues. Is there a space or whitespace in front of the "L", so it is first? You should trim before you sort. The other issue might be a case issue. Is everything lowercase but the word beginning with "L"? If so, you need to toUpper or toLower before you sort. So for your sort expression, try 'field'.trim().toUpper(), I suspect that will help.
Cheers
Rich