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Routine for organising [ad-hoc] data, splice_sort()

• Posted by Aidan Bindoff <abindoff at ONE.NET.AU> Jan 24, 2001
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Hello, here is a function splice_sort() which some of you may find useful.
If you find any bugs, or think of any improvements, please let me know.
I use it for organising ad-hoc data, e.g stock market data files. It might
also be useful for event based programs. e.g
x={{event,time},{event,time},{event,time}}
y={{event,time},{event,time}}
z={{event,time},{event,time}}
log=splice_sort(x&y&z,2)  -- to organise events in time series

include sort.e
function splice_sort(object string,integer pos)
sequence temp
    if pos=1 then                        -- this section is just
            string=sort(string)        -- an optimisation
       return string                       --
    end if                                     --


    if pos>length(string[1]) then       -- check that pos
       return -1                                    -- is valid
    end if                                            -- i.e not > than
sequence
                                                         -- n.b could be
added to each
                                                         -- iteration of
loop below for
                                                         -- better error
reporting, but slower


 temp=string
     for i=1 to length(string) do
           temp[i]=string[i][pos]&string[i]    -- add element[pos] to
     end for                                                -- first pos,
 temp=sort(temp)                                   -- sort,
     for i=1 to length(temp) do                --
       temp[i]=temp[i][2..length(temp[i])] -- then clean up
     end for
 return temp
-- known bug:  if elements sorted are equal, it sorts next element etc...
end function

example:


output=splice_sort(file1&file2,2)

-- output={{"CCA",19930329,7.19},{"CCA",19930330,7.23},
                  {"CCA",19930402,7.25},{"CCA",19930402,7.28}}
This has sorted data from file1 and file2 by date (element 2).

Regards,
Aidan