qsort
Purpose
Synopsis
procedure qsort(sense:boolean, lvals:list)
procedure qsort(sense:boolean, vals:array of integer|real|string)
procedure qsort(sense:boolean, cvals:array|list of array, ndx:array)
procedure qsort(sense:boolean, cvals:array|list of array, ndx:array, sel:set)
procedure qsort(sense:boolean, cvals:array|list of array, lndx:list)
procedure qsort(sense:boolean, cvals:array|list of array, lndx:list, sel:set)
procedure qsort(sense:boolean, cmpfct:string|function, cmpctx:?, vals:array, ndx:array)
procedure qsort(sense:boolean, cmpfct:string|function, cmpctx:?, vals:array, ndx:array, sel:set)
procedure qsort(sense:boolean, cmpfct:string|function, cmpctx:?, vals:array, lndx:list)
procedure qsort(sense:boolean, cmpfct:string|function, cmpctx:?, vals:array, lndx:list, sel:set)
Arguments
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sense
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Sense of the sorting:
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lvals
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List to be sorted
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vals
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One-dimensional array to be sorted
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cvals
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One-dimensional array to be sorted or list of one-dimensional arrays
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cmpfct
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The name of or a reference to a comparator function of the form
function cmpfct(cmpctx,e1,e2):integer that behaves as
compare with
e1 and
e2 of the same type as the array to sort
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cmpctx
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The value to be passed as the first argument to
cmpfct (this parameter is not used by
qsort)
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ndx
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One-dimensional array of the same type and size as the indexing set of
vals
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lndx
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List of the same type as the indexing set of
vals
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sel
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Subset of the indexing set of
vals
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Example
The following example sorts an array of real numbers:
declarations
ar: array(1..10) of real
end-declarations
ar:: [1.2, -3, -8, 10.5, 4, 7, 2.9, -1, 0, 5]
qsort(true, ar)
writeln("Sorted array: ", ar)
Further information
1. In the first two versions of the procedure (with two arguments,
sense and
vals or
lvals) the input array (list)
vals (
lvals) is overwritten by the resulting sorted array (list).
2. When an array
ndx is provided, the resulting sorted array is returned in the argument
ndx in the form of its sorted index set. If a selection set
sel of indices is provided, only the specified indices are processed.
3. When a list
lndx is provided, the resulting sorted array is returned in the argument
lndx in the form of a list of sorted indices. If a selection set
sel of indices is provided, only the specified indices are processed.
4. When applied to a dynamic array this procedure processes all indices of the index set including those not referring to an existing cell (a subset of the indexing set
sel can be used to select only the existing entries).
5. The second version of the routine can handle arrays of integers, reals and strings. Other versions also accept module types supporting ordering (like
text or
date for instance).
6. When the parameter
cvals is a list of arrays it is expected that all these arrays have one dimension and are all indiced by the same set. The list can contain up to 10 arrays. When performing the sorting the routine will use the first array values as the primary sorting criteria and then the following array in case of equality.
7. A comparator routine may also be provided in the form of user-defined function
cmpfct (the function must be declared public if it is passed by name). The first parameter of this function is given via
cmpctx that can be of any scalar type (including a record), it is not used by the
qsort algorithm but may be employed by the comparator function to store data required for the comparison. The 2 other arguments, that are of the same type as the array to sort, are the elements to compare: the function must return 0 if the 2 elements are identical, -1 if the first element is smaller or 1 otherwise. When using this form there is no restriction on the type of the array to sort.
Module
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