Re: Inconsistency: "sort" on UNIX <-> Windows

[Martin Schultz <martin.schultz(at)dkrz.de>]

David Fanning wrote:
> 
> Daniel Luebbert (luebbert@stanford.edu) writes:
[...]
> > In other words: The "sort" routine on Windows doesn't preserve the
> > original order of entries which have the same value (see the 3
> > "1"-values in my test data), but apparently rearranges them in a random
> > way.
> >
[...]
> 
> P.S. There is not much that can be done, except sort
> the other dimension by some consistent criteria (e.g.
> the "order" in the original array). Ugly, but perhaps
> necessary depending upon your application.
> 
> David

... and for this you could use my multisort.pro which you find at
http://www.mpimet.mpg.de/~schultz.martin/idl/

Martin


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