Re: [DUG] dynamic array items

[Paul Mckenzie]

What about a TList - the TList containing pointers to the already-allocated records and you just resort the pointers and then write to file the records contained at the pointer location using the TList order.   Regards Paul McKenzie Analyst Programmer SMSS Ltd.   ----- Original Message ----- From: Ross Levis To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List Sent: Thursday, May 27, 2004 10:26 AM Subject: Re: [DUG] dynamic array items Hi Dennis   > The other consideration is why you would want to sort the array - is it for > display, or is it for easier retrieval?   It's not for display purposes as such, but each item is retrieved sequentially from the array and placed in a text file.  The order was previously not important.   > What is the sort key?   It will be sorted on a portion of one of the string fields of the record.   > Is it easier > to put the keys into a TStringList using AddObject, with the index of the > element as the "object" pointer, and sort the string list?   That's what I'm doing in the code I posted, but only temporarily, then trying to re-arrange the order of the array, which obviously you can't do.  I'll work something out.   Cheers, Ross. _______________________________________________ Delphi mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ns3.123.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi

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