Description

Alphabetically sort a list of strings stored in an array. The sorting will be case sensitive, meaning that the letters A-Z will get sorted before a-z.

Functional area

System

Command syntax

Syntax

sortStrings stringArray [-d] [-numeric]

Arguments

Name	Type	Required	Comments
`stringArray`	string array	yes	The array to sort

Flags

Name	Flag arguments	Argument type	Exclusive to	Comments
`d`	0	—	—	Sorts in descending order. Default is to sort in ascending order.
`numeric`				Sorts strings numerically

Return value

string array

Examples

// Demonstrate a simple sort.
string $array[3;
$array[0] = "apple";
$array[1] = "Berry;
$array[2] = "Apple";
string $sortedArray[] = `sortStrings $array`;
print $sortedArray;

Shogun 1.7 Documentation

sortStrings