String list sort does not appear to work?

t.h...@trl.telstra.com.au

Delphi Developer

Thu, 28 Jun 2001 03:00:00 GMT

String list sort does not appear to work?

I have a problem with sorting string lists, ListBoxes or StringLists seem to
act the same. On a couple of occasions I have needed to sort text files with
a fairly large number of lines (say a couple of thousand) alphabetically. If
I read them into a "sorted" list, the duplicates are not always next to each
other, some are a couple of positions away from where they should be. Has
anyone else experienced this problem or have any ideas.

Trevor Hand

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Ken Whit

Delphi Developer

Fri, 29 Jun 2001 03:00:00 GMT

Re:String list sort does not appear to work?

Trevor,

Can you post a couple of examples of lines that are incorrect?

TIP: Load the stringlist with Sorted := False, and then set Sorted
to True; the stringlist will load 10x faster.

Ken
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t.h...@trl.telstra.com.au wrote:

> I have a problem with sorting string lists, ListBoxes or StringLists seem to
> act the same. On a couple of occasions I have needed to sort text files with
> a fairly large number of lines (say a couple of thousand) alphabetically. If
> I read them into a "sorted" list, the duplicates are not always next to each
> other, some are a couple of positions away from where they should be. Has
> anyone else experienced this problem or have any ideas.

> Trevor Hand

> -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==----------
> http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own

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