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Re: Inconsistency: "sort" on UNIX <-> Windows [message #20720 is a reply to message #20542]

Tue, 18 July 2000 00:00

Martin Schultz
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David Fanning wrote:
>
> Daniel Luebbert (luebbert@stanford.edu) writes:

>> In other words: The "sort" routine on Windows doesn't preserve the
>> original order of entries which have the same value (see the 3
>> "1"-values in my test data), but apparently rearranges them in a random
>> way.
>>

>
> P.S. There is not much that can be done, except sort
> the other dimension by some consistent criteria (e.g.
> the "order" in the original array). Ugly, but perhaps
> necessary depending upon your application.
>
> David

... and for this you could use my multisort.pro which you find at
http://www.mpimet.mpg.de/~schultz.martin/idl/

Martin

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		Inconsistency: "sort" on UNIX <-> Windows By: Daniel Luebbert on Fri, 07 July 2000 00:00
		Re: Inconsistency: "sort" on UNIX <-> Windows By: Martin Schultz on Tue, 18 July 2000 00:00
		Re: Inconsistency: "sort" on UNIX <-> Windows By: R.Bauer on Fri, 04 August 2000 00:00

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