Hello again-
as always, I only drop by when I have a problem… I’m such a selfish bastard (is it allowed to even say “bastard” on here?) :jail:
Anyways. I know that (in PHP) there’s a way to use user-created functions to sort an Array (usort & uksort) by custom comparisons- you pass the Array and the name of your function and it uses your own function to “re-organize” the array.
Is something like that also available / possible in Actionscript? Or do I have to write my own function where it loops through the array entries and writes them into a new array? I need it relatively quick so setting up my own might take too long.
The setup is pretty much this (just in case you’re interested):
my_array[0]["name"] = "Bob"
my_array[0]["number"] = "11"
my_array[1]["name"] = "Peter"
my_array[1]["number"] = "22"
my_array[2]["name"] = "Justus"
my_array[2]["number"] = "33"
Now comes the part that makes me require a user function…
I have *another *array, that contains a custom order to be applied to the main array (my_array):
sort_array[0] = "22"
sort_array[1] = "33"
sort_array[2] = "11"
What I need is a function that will process “my_array” and re-order it so that the entries in “my_array” are in the order that matches the “number” field (from “my_array”) to the order of the number values in the array “sort_array”.
I hope the example makes sense… basically, what I need is (going by above’s example) a result where “my_array” will end up ordered like this:
my_array[1]["name"] = "Peter"
my_array[1]["number"] = "22"
my_array[2]["name"] = "Justus"
my_array[2]["number"] = "33"
my_array[0]["name"] = "Bob"
my_array[0]["number"] = "11"
(ordered by “number” in connection to the sequence in which the numbers are in “sort_array”)
It doesn’t matter to me if it will create a new array- or if the keys will be retained or re-set… I just need the array to be sorted ^^;
Thanks for all you people’s time and effort!
~Marcel