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How/What do I change the Quicksort function (execerpt below) to sort in descending order (Z to A; n to 0)?

I'm having a problem trying to do a reverse sort (descending order; Z to A; n to 0).
The Quicksort function (mentioned below) does a sort in ascending order (A to Z; 0 to n) and is an excerpt from a C++ book called "Data Abstractions & Structures using C++". I've used the following code to do a sort of filenames/folders in a customized Enhanced Browser Page for IIS 5.0 and WORKS!!! I've tried to manipulate variables within the function to do a reverse sort however I've had no luck....

My question: How/What do I change the Quicksort function (execerpt below) to sort in descending order (Z to A; n to 0)?

'___________________________________________________________________
Sub QuickSort(vec,loBound,hiBound,SortField)
'==--------------------------------------------------------==
'== Sort a 2 dimensional array on SortField ==
'== ==
'== This procedure is adapted from the algorithm given in: ==
'== ~ Data Abstractions & Structures using C++ by ~ ==
'== ~ Mark Headington and David Riley, pg. 586 ~ ==
'== Quicksort is the fastest array sorting routine For ==
'== unordered arrays. Its big O is n log n ==
'== ==
'== Parameters: ==
'== vec - array to be sorted ==
'== SortField - The field to sort on (2nd dimension value) ==
'== loBound and hiBound are simply the upper and lower ==
'== bounds of the array's 1st dimension. It's probably ==
'== easiest to use the LBound and UBound functions to ==
'== Set these. ==
'==--------------------------------------------------------==

Dim pivot(),loSwap,hiSwap,temp,counter
Redim pivot (Ubound(vec,2))
'== Two items to sort
if hiBound - loBound = 1 then
if vec(loBound,SortField) > vec(hiBound,SortField) then
Call SwapRows(vec,hiBound,loBound)
End If
End If

BrianGEFF719

if vec(loBound,SortField) < vec(hiBound,SortField) then

HCAAdmin

ASKER

Thanks for the reply....

However it still doesn't seem to work. Perhaps I need to change something in the subroutine called "Swaprows"?
The following is the subroutine called within the Quicksort() function:

Parameters being passed into the subroutine:
SwapRows(vec,hiBound,loBound)
-------------------------------------------------------------
Sub SwapRows(ary,row1,row2)
'== This proc swaps two rows of an array
Dim x,tempvar
For x = 0 to Ubound(ary,2)
tempvar = ary(row1,x)
ary(row1,x) = ary(row2,x)
ary(row2,x) = tempvar

Next

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HCAAdmin

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I got an answer to this question....

Check out the response to my post! https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/22039210/How-to-do-a-reverse-sort-descending-of-filenames-using-Quicksort-function.html

Thanks for the effort and I will offer some points! :)