Re: Re: PHP 4.0 Bug #5730 Updated: sort and rsort are not 'opposites'

On Sun, 23 Jul 2000 13:50:01 +0300 (IDT), Stanislav Malyshev wrote: >j>> Hmm, well thats not the case over here... default sort is 'random'. > >What do you mean by 'random'? I fear you lost me here. > Well, thats probably not the clearest definition I could have given ;-} Example: $a = array("0", "1", "01", "02", "2"); sort($a); gives 0 01 1 2 02 this seems to be neither string or numeric, although I guess you could ague that it is numeric. $a = array("0", "1", "01", "02", "2"); rsort($a); gives 02 2 01 1 0 this is numeric I would say.... But in the first example, the rules for sorting don't seem to be clear from looking at the result, which is why I called it random. However, I would expect the results from sort and rsort to be symmetric... which they aren't. Using SORT_STRING in the above two examples gives: 0 01 02 1 2 2 1 02 01 0 which is clearly string sorting. -- jalal --