Comments on: sorting an array http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/sorting-an-array/ Fri, 24 May 2013 15:01:00 +0000 hourly 1 By: cwc http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/sorting-an-array/#comment-57964 cwc Fri, 21 Nov 2008 16:12:24 +0000 #comment-57964 There is also the qsort (quick sort) function in the C runtime library that can be bound into an ILE program. If a quick sort meets your needs, you wouldn’t have to write the logic in COBOL; you could let qsort do the work. You’d just need to code a comparison method for it to use.

]]> By: sbelectric http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/sorting-an-array/#comment-57929 sbelectric Thu, 20 Nov 2008 15:12:44 +0000 #comment-57929 Excellent reference materrial on SORT.
But do consider utilizing external SORT (or Syncsort) utilities, if possible. Sometimes it is easirer & convenient … then let the SORT output feed into the COBOL program.

]]> By: cwc http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/sorting-an-array/#comment-57907 cwc Wed, 19 Nov 2008 20:29:47 +0000 #comment-57907 Thanks for the link, Sloopy – quite interesting.

]]> By: sloopy http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/sorting-an-array/#comment-57862 sloopy Tue, 18 Nov 2008 17:02:02 +0000 #comment-57862 There is an excellent article on sort algorithms in COBOL here, including full code samples and timings for AS/400 :

http://home.att.net/~arnold.trembley/svalgard.htm

Regards,

Sloopy

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