note 51088 added to function.sort
| From: | dwatson at planandgrow dot com | Date: | Sat, 19 Mar 2005 01:55:32 +0000 |
| Subject: | note 51088 added to function.sort | ||
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Here is a recursive use of sort for multi-dim arrays:
<?php
/*Mulsort function recursively sorts a multi-dimensional, numeric array in place,
regardless of how many dimensions it has. The array can be ragged -- not a matrix.
*/
function mulsort(&$a)
{
sort($a);
$c = count($a);
for($i = 0; $i < $c; $i++)
if (is_array($a[$i]))
mulsort($a[$i]);
}
//The following array is just used to demo the mulsort function.
$array_demo = array ( array ( array (333,1,9,8,7,6,5), array (array(1, 'x', 22), 99, 88 ),
-10 ),
array ( array (11, 12, 'a', 'b', 'c'), array (8, 1, 2,-5) ) );
echo "Array before sorting:<br /><pre>";
var_dump($array_demo);
echo "</pre></ br></ br>";
mulsort($array_demo);
echo "Array after sorting:<br /><pre>";
var_dump($array_demo);
echo "</pre>";
?>
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