From: Dark Ambient <sambient@...>
Date: 2006-06-30T05:33:23+09:00
Subject: Re: Sorting arrays

I just started going through the replies, thank you all very much!
Anyway, this one below, just kind of blows me away so succinct!
I guess because it's Ruby.

Stuart

On 6/29/06, Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> wrote:
> ** more spoilers **

> You can do
>
> list = ["aword", "cword", "gword", "zword", "dword", "qword", "pword"]
> unsorted = list.dup
> sorted = []
> until unsorted.empty?      #when unsorted is empty, we are done
>    sorted << unsorted.min      #put the smallest value into sorted
>    unsorted.delete(unsorted.min)   #take it out of unsorted
> end
> p sorted