RE: [Maptitude] SortArray() Alphabetical Issues

Sun, 26 Feb 2006 09:30:44 -0800

Stephen,
I'm not sure there is a way to do it without type conversion (and there may be) but, it is not that hard to go through the string conversion...I wrote this macro to sort a 1-dimension list....so if it is going to be multi-dimensional you will need to adjust indexes a bit but, that will be easy...just put the macro in your code somewhere and call it where you would have used SortArray() in the first place (i.e. Stephens_array = RunMacro("sort_insensitive",Stephens_array)....hope this helps...Dave
 
//SORTING 1-DIMENSIONAL LIST WITH DIFFERENT CASES
Macro "sort_insensitive" (your_array)
 
a1 = your_array
for i = 1 to a1.length do
    a1[i] = {a1[i],i}
end
 
for i = 1 to a1.length do
a2 = a2+{{Upper(a1[i][1]),a1[i][2]}}
end
 
a2=sortarray(a2)
 
for i = 1 to a1.length do
   chk = a2[i][2]
   val = 0
for j = 1 to a1.length do
   val = a1[j][2]
   if val = chk then do
      goto match
   end
end
match:
   a3 = a3+{a1[j][1]}
end
your_array = a3
//showarray(your_array)
Return(your_array)
endmacro

 
From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of sjones_sc
Sent: Sunday, February 26, 2006 8:59 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [Maptitude] SortArray() Alphabetical Issues

In using the SortArray function, it sorts my character list (e.g.
layer names) alphabetically, BUT, it first sorts the layers with Upper
Case names A-Z, then it sorts the layers with lower case names A-Z.
How can I (without a series of string conversions) get it to disregard
the capitalization and simply sort them all alphabetically?

Thanks,
Stephen

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