Sorting an array

[Richard D. Williams]

Jose,

You have hit the nail on the head.
I have been making a living with Fiepro for more than 30 years, and this 
list stopped helping people a long time ago.

As a community of people who need to find ways to expand our little 
filepro world, we do not need haters and people who constantly criticize 
others.
If they are so smart, why can't they just offer a constructive idea?
Some people just like to hear themselves talk.

Just keep doing what you are doing Jose.  Maybe some members on this 
list need help.

BTW, no one on this list can cost me anything.  I do not depend on it.  
I just look for a few people who really need help and respond off-list.

Richard D. Williams

On 6/1/2016 1:15 PM, Jose Lerebours via Filepro-list wrote:
> My heart is simply pounding!
>
> No one in this "never" stuck his/her neck out for me  ;-)    and much 
> less if it involved those that smashed my head in.
>
> Thank you!   I hope this does not come at a cost to you Richard ...
>
>
>
>
> On 06/01/2016 02:03 PM, Richard D. Williams via Filepro-list wrote:
>> On 5/19/2016 2:00 PM, Kenneth Brody via Filepro-list wrote:
>>> On 5/18/2016 12:15 PM, Richard Kreiss via Filepro-list wrote:
>>> > I would like to be able to sort a 20 element array.
>>> >
>>> > Any suggestion as to how best to do this on a Windows machine?
>>>
>>> After all the discussion about overhead of external tools, I think a 
>>> lot of this boils down to how often is this sort going to be done.
>>>
>>> There's a world of difference in sorting 20 items once, prior to 
>>> running a million-record report, and once per record on a 
>>> million-record report.
>>>
>> Wow. I read all the emails in this thread and frankly, it was a waste 
>> of time.
>> As usual, Mark had way too much to say that never addressed the problem.
>> Again, Jose was his target.
>>
>> In the end, Jose was right.
>> The simplest solution is to create some temp file that could be used 
>> for any number of elements in an array.
>>
>> If you have a simple one or two data sort, write out the original 
>> element number, data one, and data two into this temp file.
>> Make sure there is an index build on data one and data two in the 
>> temp file.
>> After you have finished writing to this temp file, read the data back 
>> into a new array by that index.
>> You can use the original element number to get the rest of the data 
>> from the original array.
>>
>> Now replace the data elements in the original array wit the new array 
>> and clear the new array and clear the temp file.
>> I often use the user's "TTY"  (linux) to make that instance unique.
>>
>> Done!
>>
>> Richard D. Williams
>>
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