Sorting Alphabetically VB6

Squall

Does anyone know a nice way of sorting an array alphabetically in VB6?

Ive only had experience with bubble sorts and cant for the life of me figure out a way to sort alphabetically using a bubble sort without giving each letter of the alphabet a numeric value. I think my brains just gone for lunch

feylya

Well you could use a bubble sort to sort the ascii value of the first letter of each array entry.

Squall

Hmmm hadnt thought of that (Should have been obvious). Thanks ill look into it.

Hobbes

afair in VB you can compare strings.


like.

if a$ < b$ then swap a$, b$

or something like that.

There is also a method for locale based sorting but I forget what it is.

str8_away

Why not use string Compare?

You can set it to binary mode, which will compare ASII value.


StrComp(string1, string2[, compare])

compare:
vbBinaryCompare 0 Perform a binary comparison.
vbTextCompare 1 Perform a textual comparison

Typedef

Insertion sort algorithm, depending on the persistence of your data?

If the data will persist then the overhead of sorting will be less costly then a straight bubble sort over lexical iterations... maybe.


Somebody bring back Elvis.

Walter Ego

If your'e going to use ASCII values to sort, don't forget to convert all strings to UPPER or LOWER or the results won't be what you expected.