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Bug #5730 sort and rsort are not 'opposites'
Submitted: 2000-07-22 00:35 UTC Modified: 2000-07-23 11:03 UTC
From: the_jalal at yahoo dot com Assigned:
Status: Closed Package: Scripting Engine problem
PHP Version: 4.0.0 OS: Linux 2.3 SuSE 6.3
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
 [2000-07-22 00:35 UTC] the_jalal at yahoo dot com
sort an array and rsort an array should give the same order in reverse, the following does not:
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$a = array("0", "1", "01", "2");
sort($a);
while (list ($key, $value) = each ($a)) {
    echo "$key: $value\n";
}
echo "\n";
$a = array("0", "1", "01", "2");
rsort($a);
while (list ($key, $value) = each ($a)) {
    echo "$key: $value\n";
}
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gives the results:
0: 0
1: 01
2: 1
3: 2

0: 2
1: 01
2: 1
3: 0



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 [2000-07-23 11:03 UTC] stas at cvs dot php dot net
This is how it is meant to work. By default PHP sorts is
"numeric". If you need "string" sort, use sort($arr,SORT_STRING).
 
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