Partial Sort ?

[comatose]

if I have an array of ten items how can I sort the first five items in
the array without sorting the second five items?

[Geoff Berrow]

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>if I have an array of ten items how can I sort the first five items in
the array without sorting the second five items?

Use a loop to copy first five to a temporary array, sort that array and
then replace into original using array_splice()
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comatose wrote:

if I have an array of ten items how can I sort the first five items in
the array without sorting the second five items?

By using an user-defined sorting function.

See http://php.net/usort

You'll need to do some dirty tricks in that function to keep track of how
many items you have sorted, to not sort those, but that should be the way..

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[Lars Eighner]

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if I have an array of ten items how can I sort the first five items in
the array without sorting the second five items?

Try searching the function index of manual for 'array' --- I'm pretty sure
you will find some useful slices of information to splice into your
knowledge base.

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[petersprc]

On Jun 20, 3:18 am, comatose wrote:

if I have an array of ten items how can I sort the first five items in
the array without sorting the second five items?

$array = array('c', 'b', 'a', 'q', 's', 'r', 'h', 'p');
$head = array_slice($array, 0, 5);
sort($head);
$newArray = array_merge($head, array_splice($array, 5));

I believe someone mentioned this...