Question

I need to sort some codes, but in a strange manner

I need to sort in a non-normal order, I need to sort the 40s first, then 50s, 90s, 70s, 80s, 60s, 20s, 30s, 10s, 00s.

What’s the best way to go about this?

It’s in C#.net 3.5

Answer 1

You can usually provide a custom method to do the sorting (either to a sort method or a sorted collection class that holds these values.

Or are you asking what the algorithm inside that method should be?

For the algorithm, you can use the following methods:

int getFirstOrder(int v) {
  if (50 <= v && v <= 59) {
    return 1;
  } else if (90 <= v && v <= 99) {
    return 2;
  }
  // and so on
}

int Compare (int v1, int v2)
{
  int o1 = getFirstOrder(v1);
  int o2 = getFirstOrder(v2);

  if (o1 < o2 || (o1 == o2 && v1 < v2)) {
    return -1;
  } else if (o1 > o2 || (o1 == o2 && v1 > v2)) {
    return 1;
  } else {
    return 0;
  }
}

I’m sure there is a more efficient way (especially for getFirstOrder(), but this should put you in the right direction