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The **SortChars **property is a reference to a structure containing the valid sort characters for the StepStringClass object. The StepStringClass object uses the SortChars property to compute steps. For example if SortChars contains only 'ABYZ' then that is the information the StepStringClass uses to compute your steps.

The Init method sets the value of the SortChars property.

**Implementation:**

The SortChars property only affects StepStringClass objects with a LookupMode specifying runtime data distribution. The SetLimit method computes the runtime data distribution.

**See Also:**     [[init  initialize the stepstringclass object .htm|Init]], [[lookupmode  expected data distribution .htm|LookupMode]], [[setlimit  set smooth data distribution stepstringclass .htm|SetLimit]]