Re: Bug #765: new kusort() function (or similar)

On 22 Sep 1998 libs@cybercable.tm.fr wrote: > From: libs@cybercable.tm.fr > Operating system: Linux (irrelevant) > PHP version: 3.0.3 > PHP Bug Type: Feature/Change Request > Bug description: new kusort() function (or similar) > > I'd be delighted if a new function similar to ksort > would appear in PHP3. > > 1/The requested functionality would be the following one: > 1.1/Consider an array: > $toto["001"]="a"; > $toto["010"]="c"; > $toto["100"]="d"; > $toto["002"]="b"; > $toto["110"]="e"; > > 1.2/Sorting this array on its key with the requested > function would give: > key : value > 001 : a > 002 : b > 010 : c > 100 : d > 110 : e > > 1.3/Due to variable typing, ksort behaves differently > and sorts this way: > key : value > 010 : c > 100 : d > 110 : e > 001 : a > 002 : b > > 1.4/There is no practical way of getting the requested > functionality with the existing functions. But there is, exactly this: > Prepending zero or appending a dot work, of course, > but it lacks elegance, especially when you have to strip > the zero or the dot afterwards for use in the rest of > the script. I'm not sure that adding specific functions for this fairly rare situation is more elegant... Zeev -- ----------------------------------------------------- Zeev Suraski <zeev@php.net> For a PGP public key, finger bourbon@netvision.net.il -- PHP Development Mailing List http://www.php.net/ To unsubscribe send an empty message to php-dev-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For help: php-dev-help@lists.php.net