Ok so it changed from 2.12.2 to 2.14.1 ?? Can somebody tell me how to modify my sort or whatever to get the save resilt that I would get in 2.14.1 ? Cheers -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Sorting-strings-tp4403696p4403858.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com.