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Re: Is there any way to refer to another array in qsort's compare function?

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On 12/29/2011 03:27 AM, Stone wrote:
> Here's the problem.
> 
> I wrote a function 'int my_compare(const void *, const void *);' and
> passed it to qsort() of stdlib.h, in order to sort an array named
> *ptr* which contains indices of another array *data*. By that I
> intended to sort elements of *ptr* (i.e. ptr[i]) using data[ptr[i]] as
> the key value.
> 
> However, the *data* array was defined as static in main(), and seemed
> not easy to access in my_compare(). Is there any way to achieve this?

One alternative is to redefine ptr to contain pointers, rather than
indices, so instead of using data[ptr[i]] you use *ptr[i].

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Is there any way to refer to another array in qsort's compare function? Stone <stonekyx@gmail.com> - 2011-12-29 00:27 -0800
  Re: Is there any way to refer to another array in qsort's compare function? Dr Nick <3-nospam@temporary-address.org.uk> - 2011-12-29 08:57 +0000
  Re: Is there any way to refer to another array in qsort's compare function? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2011-12-29 11:58 +0000
    Re: Is there any way to refer to another array in qsort's compare function? 88888 Dihedral <dihedral88888@googlemail.com> - 2011-12-29 04:20 -0800
      Re: Is there any way to refer to another array in qsort's compare function? Dr Nick <3-nospam@temporary-address.org.uk> - 2011-12-29 12:37 +0000
        Re: Is there any way to refer to another array in qsort's compare function? 88888 Dihedral <dihedral88888@googlemail.com> - 2011-12-29 04:48 -0800
          Re: Is there any way to refer to another array in qsort's compare function? Dr Nick <3-nospam@temporary-address.org.uk> - 2011-12-29 12:59 +0000
            Re: Is there any way to refer to another array in qsort's compare function? Geoff <geoff@invalid.invalid> - 2011-12-29 10:09 -0800
              Re: Is there any way to refer to another array in qsort's compare function? 88888 Dihedral <dihedral88888@googlemail.com> - 2011-12-29 17:50 -0800
                Re: Is there any way to refer to another array in qsort's compare function? Geoff <geoff@invalid.invalid> - 2011-12-29 19:29 -0800
                Re: Is there any way to refer to another array in qsort's compare function? 88888 Dihedral <dihedral88888@googlemail.com> - 2011-12-30 00:36 -0800
                Re: Is there any way to refer to another array in qsort's compare function? Bull in a China Blue Shop <chine.bleu@yahoo.com> - 2011-12-30 00:52 -0800
                Re: Is there any way to refer to another array in qsort's compare function? 88888 Dihedral <dihedral88888@googlemail.com> - 2011-12-30 02:16 -0800
              Re: Is there any way to refer to another array in qsort's compare function? 88888 Dihedral <dihedral88888@googlemail.com> - 2011-12-29 18:01 -0800
            Re: Is there any way to refer to another array in qsort's compare function? James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2011-12-29 13:21 -0500
        Re: Is there any way to refer to another array in qsort's compare function? 88888 Dihedral <dihedral88888@googlemail.com> - 2011-12-30 23:18 -0800
    Re: Is there any way to refer to another array in qsort's compare function? 88888 Dihedral <dihedral88888@googlemail.com> - 2012-01-07 23:40 -0800
      Re: Is there any way to refer to another array in qsort's compare function? pete <pfiland@mindspring.com> - 2012-01-08 07:26 -0500
        Re: Is there any way to refer to another array in qsort's compare function? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2012-01-08 12:50 +0000
          Re: Is there any way to refer to another array in qsort's compare function? 88888 Dihedral <dihedral88888@googlemail.com> - 2012-01-08 06:02 -0800
        Re: Is there any way to refer to another array in qsort's compare function? Phil Carmody <thefatphil_demunged@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-01-17 12:35 +0200
  Re: Is there any way to refer to another array in qsort's compare function? Bull in a China Blue Shop <chine.bleu@yahoo.com> - 2011-12-29 05:07 -0800
    Re: Is there any way to refer to another array in qsort's compare function? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2011-12-29 14:16 +0000
      Re: Is there any way to refer to another array in qsort's compare function? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2011-12-29 15:29 +0000
        Re: Is there any way to refer to another array in qsort's compare function? 88888 Dihedral <dihedral88888@googlemail.com> - 2011-12-29 09:33 -0800
        Re: Is there any way to refer to another array in qsort's compare function? 88888 Dihedral <dihedral88888@googlemail.com> - 2011-12-29 15:40 -0800
  Re: Is there any way to refer to another array in qsort's compare function? James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2011-12-29 10:50 -0500
  Re: Is there any way to refer to another array in qsort's compare function? pete <pfiland@mindspring.com> - 2012-01-07 20:50 -0500

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