How do I sort a table into increasing numerical order?

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So basically, I have a bunch of arrays which all come together to form a table.
And I want to put it into increasing order

What I have tried:

For x = 1 to 6
        Console.WriteLine("{0,-10} {1,-6} {2,-7} {3,-7} {4,-10} {5,-5}", name(x), sum, wins, lost, roundsWon, knockout)
next

Posted 24-Oct-18 22:49pm

RV2020

Updated 25-Oct-18 19:17pm

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CHill60 25-Oct-18 5:16am

What is wrong with the code you have? What happens/does not happen?

RV2020 25-Oct-18 5:21am

Currently, it just outputs it like it has been entered (charlotte then victoria then dhruv then petra then rauha then isabel) rather than in increasing order (isabel then dhruv then petra then charlotte then victoria then rauha)

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OriginalGriff · Accepted Answer · 2018-10-24T23:26:00

Solution 1

The way I would do it is to throw away your separate arrays, and create a "container class" which holds a single persons details: name and results.
Then create an array of these and populate each instance accordingly.
You can then order the array by name or results by reordering the array and the other information about the person automatically moves with it.

Posted 24-Oct-18 23:26pm

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OriginalGriff 25-Oct-18 5:28am

It's an ordinary class that just contains data - it doesn't try to do anything with it.

OriginalGriff 25-Oct-18 5:43am

Yes, but it's a lot more complicated, because you have to remember to perform the same actions on both arrays, or you will not keep related information together.

One way to get round that is to have a separate "indexes" array - and instead of going directly to the two arrays you have, you use that to provide you with the index to both of the others.

So if you want the second item in a sequence, you fetch the number from the second element of the indexes array, and use that to access the names array and the results array.
When you want to sort the data by name or results, you swap the indexes around instead of the actual data in the name or results arrays.

Make sense?