Yeah though it will be much work to rewrite the program, I think I better do it asap.. thanks for the suggestions

Jimi

>Hi!
>
>Yep.
>
>MyObjects(i,2) = padl(val(m.cObjValue),4,"0")+substr(m.cObjValue,len(val(m.cObjValue))+1)
>
>This will make them all like
>0001, 0002, 0002A, 0003, 0003A, 0003B, 0010, 0010A...etc.
>
>and in character comparison it will be "0002"<"0010".
>
>HTH.
>
>
>>hi Vlad,
>>
>>i didn't use the asort() because I'm sorting something like:
>>1, 2, 2A, 3, 3A, 3B, 10, 10A...etc.
>>
>>since 2A 3A are valid, I cannot use integer but strings, but at the same time 10 must be larger than 2 that for string comparsion foxpro would think 2 is larger... I dunno how to fix this so I used a custom sorting..
>>
>>any idea?
>>
>>Jimi
>>
>>>Hi!
>>>
>>>Any recursive function could be re-written to use a loop instead of recursive call.
>>>
>>>However, I'm wondered - WHY not use ASORT() function????????
>>>dimension MyObjects(nObjectsCount,2)
>>>for i=1 to nObjectsCount
>>> MyObjects(i,1) = ... && some object reference
>>> MyObjects(i,2) = ... && value used for comparison for sorting
>>>endfor
>>>
>>>ASORT(MyObjects,2)
>>>
>>>And thats all.
>>>This way should be MUCH more quick then just a custom sorting algorithm.
>>>
>>>HTH.
>>>
>>>Make array 2-dimensioned with 2 columns. One contains object reference. Another column contains value which you use for sorting. Then use ASORT(aArray,)
>>>
>>>>I have wrote a function to quick-sort' an array of objects, but when the array is a bit larger (~600), I receive an "Allowed DO nesting level exceeded." error message.
>>>>
>>>>I do not have any do-loop included in another do-loop, but maybe it still counted when a do-loop is included in my recursive function...
>>>>
>>>>Is it posible to remove this limitation, or must I rewrite my recursive function?
>>>>
>>>>Thanks,
>>>>Jimi