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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Sort multidimensional Array Post 303031875 by bakunin on Thursday 7th of March 2019 03:39:29 AM
Old 03-07-2019
Quote:
Originally Posted by Marti95
I have to sort all elements and then i want to give them formated out.

How can I sort this array?
In addition to what RudiC already said (and, by the way, if your programming language is not some shell - i assume that it is, but my assumption might be wrong - it would be nice to know which one that is). Notice, though, that most shells don't support multidimenisonal arrays and especially not assiociative arrays:

What exactly do you mean by "sort all the elements"? For a sorting you need some key - alphabetical, numerical, by date or whatever - and something to sort. An array, regardless of being multidimensional or not, contains several elements. The elements have an index - basically their position in the array - and some content. Do you want to sort the contents or the indices to be sorted?

If it is the indices: these are multi-value items in a multidimensional array and it is not clear which part of these take priority: i.e. if you have 3 entries, [1,10], [2,5] and [10,1], which one is supposed to be first? If the first element takes priority the order would be [1,10], [2,5], [10,1], if the second element takes priority you have [10,1], [2,5], [1,10], if the sum of both entries is the sort criteria it is [2,5], [1,10], [10,1], etc..

If it is the contents you are trying to sort you simply need to traverse through the indices of one dimension after the other using simple for-loops, i.e. for a 3-dimensional array with numerical indices (pseudocode):

Code:
for i in 1..10
     for j in 1..10
          for k in 1..10
               print array[i,j,k]
          next
     next
next

and sort the resulting list.

I hope this helps.

bakunin
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JE::Object::Array(3pm)					User Contributed Perl Documentation				    JE::Object::Array(3pm)

NAME
JE::Object - JavaScript Array object class SYNOPSIS
use JE; use JE::Object::Array; $j = new JE; $js_array = new JE::Object::Array $j, 1, 2, 3; $perl_arrayref = $js_array->value; # returns [1, 2, 3] $js_array->[1]; # same as $js_array->value->[1] "$js_array"; # returns "1,2,3" DESCRIPTION
This module implements JavaScript Array objects. The "@{}" (array ref) operator is overloaded and returns a tied array that you can use to modify the array object itself. The limitations and caveats mentioned in "JE::Object/"USING AN OBJECT AS A HASH"" apply here, too. METHODS
See JE::Types for descriptions of most of the methods. Only what is specific to JE::Object::Array is explained here. $a = JE::Object::Array->new($global_obj, @elements) $a = JE::Object::Array->new($global_obj, $length) $a = JE::Object::Array->new($global_obj, @elements) This creates a new Array object. If the second argument is an unblessed array ref, the elements of that array become the elements of the new array object. If there are two arguments and the second is a JE::Number, a new array is created with that number as the length. Otherwise, all arguments starting from the second one become elements of the new array object. $a->value This returns a reference to an array. This is a copy of the Array object's internal array. If you want an array through which you can modify the object, use @$a. SEE ALSO
JE JE::Types JE::Object perl v5.14.2 2012-03-18 JE::Object::Array(3pm)
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