# Sorting Associative Arrays

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/sorting-associative-arrays/229209>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [June 14, 2007, 9:24pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/sorting-associative-arrays/229209 "2007-06-14T21:24:32Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 14, 2007, 9:24pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/sorting-associative-arrays/229209/1 "2007-06-14T21:24:32Z")

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I have two arrays. One contains numbers and the other contains strings. I want to do a

sortOn(DECENDING) for the number array and then have the string array sort to match.

if my string array is

string[0] = “morning”;  
string[1] = “noon”;  
string[2] = “night”;

number[0] = 3;  
number[1] = 1;  
number[2] = 2;

i’ll sort the number array and that’s fine. but can i apply that same sort to the string array?