> How do I sort an array and then work with the sorted information? The
> combined documentation relating to this in both of the Forta books equates
> to about 10 lines. The only output I can get from the arraysort
> function is
> a "yes" or a "no", and after it returns "yes" and I go back to call data
> from the "sorted" array - it's not sorted at all. Am I wrong to
> think of a
> 2 dimensional array as a spreadsheet? If I've got a 5 column, 2
> dimensional
> array - is there a syntax for sorting by, let's say, the 3rd column? Here
> is what I have been trying:
>
> <cfset testarray = ArrayNew(2)>
> <cfset boom = 0>
> <cfset bang = 400>
>
> <cfloop index="boom" from="0" to="20">
> <cfset bang = bang + 1>
> <cfset testarray[ArrayLen(testarray)+1][1]="#boom#">
> <cfset testarray[ArrayLen(testarray)][2]="#bang#">
> </cfloop>
>
> <cfset testarray = arraysort(testarray[2], "numeric", "desc")>
>
> So what this is doing is setting a two column array, each
> containing numbers
> in an ascending fashion. The arraysort function on the last line (which
> causes an error, hope you know what I'm attempting to do) is sorting the
> array by the second column in a descending order. What am I doing wrong?
> CF4.51/w2kadvanced
Philip Arnold
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ArraySort is horrid and ugly - it only (seems) to sort single dimentioned
arrays, and either eats 2 dimentional ones, or does nothing
I had to write a sort routine for my 2 dimentional ones
If not, keep a dump database, make a table, insert the data, query it...
voila!
Ugly, but faster than writing your own sort routine.
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