Hi;
I've been banging my head on this all day.
2 arrays. One contains numeric values, the other contains string values.
I'm trying to sort the numeric array (numerically) and have the new element order of the numeric array similarly reflected in the string array. If this occurs, trace(ss2) would read "A big banana contains a whole bunch of potassium".
I'd prefer not to use an associative array to accomplish this.
Thanks for any input.
Bob
CODE
var ss1:Array = new Array;
var ss2:Array = new Array;
var a1 = 121
var a2 = 3
var a3 = 1
var a4 = 6
var a5 = 1
var a6 = 8
var a7 = 10
var a8 = 2
var a9 = 14
var a10 = 7
var b1 = "potassium"
var b2 = "banana"
var b3 = "A"
var b4 = "contains"
var b5 = "big"
var b6 = "whole"
var b7 = "bunch"
var b8 = "yellow"
var b9 = "of"
var b10 = "a"
ss1 = [a1, a2, a3, a4, a5, a6, a7, a8, a9, a10];
ss2 = [b1, b2, b3, b4, b5, b6, b7, b8, b9, b10];
trace(ss1);
trace(ss2);
ss2.sort(ss.sort(Array.NUMERIC));
trace(ss1);
trace(ss2);