What is the sort() method in the Euphoria language?
Overview
The sort() method in the Euphoria programming language is used to arrange the members of a sequence in the desired order.
In this method, sorting can be ascending or descending, indicated by the inbuilt constants ASCENDING and DESCENDING.
Syntax
sort(to_be_sorted, sort_order)
Parameters
The sort() method takes the following parameters:
to_be_sorted: The sequence to be sorted.sort_order: Indicates the way we want to sort the given sequence. It is indicated byascending Members of the sequence are arranged from the smallest member to the largest in value. descending Members of the sequence are arranged from the largest member to the smallest in value. sort.estandard library file. The default value of this parameter isASCENDING.
To use the sort() method, we must include the sort.e file from the standard library of Euphoria like this:
include std/sort.e
Return value
This method returns a sorted sequence.
Code
Let’s look at the code below:
include std/sort.e--define variablesconstant model_ages = {18,32,16,23,17,16,25,20,19,32,15}sequence sorted_model_agesASC,sorted_model_agesDESC--store the outcome of sort operationsorted_model_agesASC = sort( model_ages )sorted_model_agesDESC = sort( model_ages,DESCENDING)--print outcome to screenprintf(1,"This is a sort in ASCENDING order: ")print(1,sorted_model_agesASC)puts(1,"\n")printf(1,"This is a sort in DESCENDING order: ")print(1,sorted_model_agesDESC)
Explanation
In the code above,
- Line 1: We include the
sort.efile. - Lines 4 and 5: We define the variables.
- Lines 8 and 9: We sort the data in indicated variables and save the outcome.
- Lines 12 to 16: We display necessary details on the screen.