Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: markspace <-@.> Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.help Subject: Re: How to sort String array A based on int array B Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2011 15:38:03 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 9 Message-ID: References: <1k2n77ltdv7ml661pa9a2g63j8q5l1c66g@4ax.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2011 22:38:07 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx04.eternal-september.org; posting-host="XjIWM99mD7Ijfdu600oVPA"; logging-data="21945"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/kQb777mYtOJo+FEL7ZG/A+9JvHroOdK8=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:6.0.2) Gecko/20110902 Thunderbird/6.0.2 In-Reply-To: <1k2n77ltdv7ml661pa9a2g63j8q5l1c66g@4ax.com> Cancel-Lock: sha1:uF7JroxZsEYWdji6OwHvFATPhFI= Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.help:1090 On 9/22/2011 12:31 PM, Thee Chicago Wolf [MVP] wrote: > The trouble I am having is sorting array B based on array A. I don't doubt that. I'm having trouble understanding what "based on" means here. Can you elaborate? What actual operation do you want to preform on A and B, based on what criteria?