Sorting Arrays ???

[Dipl.-Ing. Werner Riegler]

Hi,

who knows how to simple sort integer arrays with cache


I found the $ORDER function,
but it "only" sorts the index and not the content of the array
so if I have entries with the same value I miss them after sorting ...

I had a sorting function in PHP like this:
asort($p, SORT_NUMERIC);

now I have:

set Cnt = object.ObjectCollection.Count()
 for oc=1:1:Cnt
{
 //  p1 is an integer value...(parameter values of objects referenced in a
collection...)
 set Data(p1) = oc
}
 set key = $Order(Data("")) // ,-1 ???

 While (key '= "") {
        if (' Silent) Write key," - ", idx," - ",Data(key),!
        Set sortedIndex(idx) = Data(key)
        set idx = idx + 1
        Set key = $Order(Data(key)) // next subscript
}

 for oc=1:1:Cnt
{
    if (' Silent) {
        w "oc ",oc, !
        w "sortedIndex(oc) - " , sortedIndex(oc),!
    }
    ...
}

or more simple:
set a(1) = 6
set a(2) = 4
set a(3) = 3
set a(4) = 1
set a(5) = 3
and so on...and I would like/need a sorted array so that I know the indices
and the content like:
b(1) = a(4) = 1
b(2) = a(3) = 3
b(3) = a(5) = 3
b(4) = a(2) = 4
b(5) = a(1) = 6

it took a while until I rec. that the index and not the content is sortet
...

so I tried to switch index and content and now I am missing entries in the
result ...

what have I missed in searchin the docu ?

please help !

brg

werner