Re: Creating a two dimensional array and sorting by index

I don't understand your question. The main advantage of an array, other than simple aggregation, is that you access it by index in the order it was created. In that sense, it is already sorted by index.

Could you give us a bit more information to go on about what you want to do?

There are so many ways to interpret what you have asked, any solution offered would be nothing more than a guess as to your real requirements.

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Get used to the wings fast cos its an 8 hour day...unless the Govenor calls for a cyclone or hurricane, in which case 16 hour shifts are mandatory.
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Re: Re: Creating a two dimensional array and sorting by index by kirk123 (Beadle) on Dec 09, 2002 at 19:46 UTC
Hi, Iam reading a text file and greping for certain strings and outputing them to a new file. In the text files there are the following string: apple plum cherry orange I want to match for these words and print them out to a file like this: plum\|apple\|orange\|cherry To do this I need to assign a number to each string and then resort these numbers to resort the string. Creating a two dimensional array I think will do this. --kirk	[reply]

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by kirk123 (Beadle) on Dec 09, 2002 at 19:46 UTC

Hi, Iam reading a text file and greping for certain strings and outputing them to a new file. In the text files there are the following string: apple plum cherry orange I want to match for these words and print them out to a file like this: plum|apple|orange|cherry To do this I need to assign a number to each string and then resort these numbers to resort the string. Creating a two dimensional array I think will do this. --kirk

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