note 21974 added to function.sort

From: Date: Sun, 02 Jun 2002 16:31:37 +0000
Subject: note 21974 added to function.sort
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I needed to sort a multi-dimensional football results array by two columns; first by competition points then by for/against. As they were both numerical values I was able to simply add the competition points to the for/against divided by 100. e.g. Points Goals Team 1: 0 -1 Team 3: +3.02 Team 2: 3 +1 became Team 2: +3.01 Team 3: 3 +2 (once sorted) Team 1: -0.01 Team 4: 0 -2 Team 4: -0.02 If your second column is likely to contain larger numbers, divide by a higher power of 10. Otherwise a team with 10 competion points and 51 goals against [10 + (-51 / 100) = 9.49] would sort below a team with 9 competition points and 51 goals for [9 + (51 / 100) = 9.51]). Dividing by 1000 in this case would give you 9.949 and 9.051 (which would sort correctly). Hope I made that clear! -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.sort.php http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+21974 http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+21974 http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+21974

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