sort() issue in Safari

[Liam]

Hi all. New to the group and new to using Safari (for work).

I noticed while coding a module at work that the sort() works quite
differently in Safari than it does in FireFox and IE.

My issue is that an array ["red","r","rad"] should look like
["r","rad","red"] after running it through the sort() function. In FF
and IE it does, but in Safari (and I assume in Konqueror, as well) it
looks like ["rad","red","r"] after the sort().

Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Liam

[Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn]

Liam wrote:

I noticed while coding a module at work that the sort() works quite
differently in Safari than it does in FireFox and IE.

My issue is that an array ["red","r","rad"] should look like
["r","rad","red"] after running it through the sort() function. In FF
and IE it does, but in Safari (and I assume in Konqueror, as well)

You assume a connection where hardly one exists. Apple's JavaScriptCore is
merely a fork of KJS, as WebCore is a fork of KHTML 3.0.2 (current version
is 3.5). It remains to be seem whether changes made in JavaScriptCore or
WebCore are actually backported to KJS or KHTML.

it looks like ["rad","red","r"] after the sort().

That would be a Safari bug, or at least a peculiarity. Are you testing with
a Safari beta (for Windows) by any chance?

Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.

1. Don't test with Safari betas.
2. You can *try* to work around the bug by passing a comparator reference:

function dictComp(s1, s2)
{
return ((s1 < s2) ? -1 : ((s1 s2) ? 1 : 0));
}

["red", "r", "rad"].sort(dictComp);
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[neptune6jun44]

Thanks for the tip...

Safari vers. is 2.0.4(419.3), Mac OS X.

I'll give your function a try in a bit.

Thanks again.

Liam

On Oct 10, 12:23 pm, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <[e-mail]>
wrote:

Liam wrote:

I noticed while coding a module at work that the sort() works quite
differently in Safari than it does in FireFox and IE.

My issue is that an array ["red","r","rad"] should look like
["r","rad","red"] after running it through the sort() function. In FF
and IE it does, but in Safari (and I assume in Konqueror, as well)

You assume a connection where hardly one exists. Apple's JavaScriptCore is
merely a fork of KJS, as WebCore is a fork of KHTML 3.0.2 (current version
is 3.5). It remains to be seem whether changes made in JavaScriptCore or
WebCore are actually backported to KJS or KHTML.

it looks like ["rad","red","r"] after the sort().

That would be a Safari bug, or at least a peculiarity. Are you testing with
a Safari beta (for Windows) by any chance?

Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.

1. Don't test with Safari betas.
2. You can *try* to work around the bug by passing a comparator reference:

function dictComp(s1, s2)
{
return ((s1 < s2) ? -1 : ((s1 s2) ? 1 : 0));
}

["red", "r", "rad"].sort(dictComp);

PointedEars
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prevent people from viewing your source, but no one will want to steal it.)"
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[neptune6jun44]

Just tried the function yuo supplied. Works perfectly!

Thanks again.

Liam

[Dr J R Stockton]

In comp.lang.javascript message <11*********************@57g2000hsv.goog
legroups.com>, Wed, 10 Oct 2007 14:15:15, Liam <ne*********@gmail.com>
posted:

>
My issue is that an array ["red","r","rad"] should look like
["r","rad","red"] after running it through the sort() function. In FF
and IE it does, but in Safari (and I assume in Konqueror, as well) it
looks like ["rad","red","r"] after the sort().

From my recent reading of ISO/IEC 16262 (see articles "searching an
array..."), I can assert that, from what you say, Safari sorts
incorrectly.

That is, provided that the example strings contain one or three
characters each.

If they have on the end an invisible terminating character, at a code
point higher than any other character used, then that's wrong but the
sort is right.

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[RobG]

On Oct 11, 12:15 am, Liam <[e-mail]:

Hi all. New to the group and new to using Safari (for work).

I noticed while coding a module at work that the sort() works quite
differently in Safari than it does in FireFox and IE.

Which version of Safari?

My issue is that an array ["red","r","rad"] should look like
["r","rad","red"] after running it through the sort() function. In FF
and IE it does, but in Safari (and I assume in Konqueror, as well) it
looks like ["rad","red","r"] after the sort().

Safari 3 on Mac OS conforms to what you get from Firefox and IE.
--
Rob