Excellent. Thanks!
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From: News Sameli [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, June 11, 2004 9:46 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [ cf-dev ] arraySort
Theres a UDF:
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<cfscript>
/**
* Sorts a two dimensional array by the specified column in the second
dimension.
*
* @return Returns an array.
* @author Robert West ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
* @version 1, October 8, 2002
*/
function ArraySort2D(arrayToSort, sortColumn, type) {
var order = "asc";
var i = 1;
var j = 1;
var thePosition = "";
var theList = "";
var arrayToReturn = ArrayNew(2);
var sortArray = ArrayNew(1);
var counter = 1;
if (ArrayLen(Arguments) GT 3){
order = Arguments[4];
}
for (i=1; i LTE ArrayLen(arrayToSort); i=i+1) {
ArrayAppend(sortArray, arrayToSort[i][sortColumn]);
}
theList = ArrayToList(sortArray);
ArraySort(sortArray, type, order);
for (i=1; i LTE ArrayLen(sortArray); i=i+1) {
thePosition = ListFind(theList, sortArray[i]);
theList = ListDeleteAt(theList, thePosition);
for (j=1; j LTE ArrayLen(arrayToSort[thePosition]); j=j+1) {
arrayToReturn[counter][j] = arrayToSort[thePosition][j];
}
ArrayDeleteAt(arrayToSort, thePosition);
counter = counter + 1;
}
return arrayToReturn;
}
</cfscript>
Sam wrote:
>quick question... is there an easy way of sorting a 2 dimensional
>array?
>
>arraySort only works on 1 dimensional arrays, it seems.
>
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