NISO Standard for Sort

3

Order of Spaces

3.1

Spaces

If the data contains more than one space then it should be treated as a single space

Y

3.2

Punctuation Marks Treated as Spaces(  -,---,/)

The hyphen, dash (of any length), or slash is to be treated as a space.

N

Need to replace hyphen with a space in _sort field

3.3

Punctuation Marks Ignored (other than  -,---,/)

The following punctuation marks should be disregarded for arrangement purposes: period (full stop), comma, semi-colon, colon, parentheses, square brackets, angle brackets, braces (curved brackets), apostrophe, quotation marks (single or double), exclamation mark, question mark. They are not to be treated as spaces.

N

Need to remove these chars in _sort field.