Monday, November 17, 2008

Sorting in C# with delegates

A delegate can be handy to avoid having to implement an IComparer class.

Suppose you need to sort an array of dates in descending order...

DateTime[] availableDates = allMailDates.ToArray();
Array.Sort(availableDates, delegate(DateTime d1, DateTime d2) {
    return Math.Sign(d2.ToBinary() - d1.ToBinary());
});
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2 comments:

  1. rgrigNovember 18, 2008 at 12:35 AM

    I don't see any guarantee on the ordering of DateTime.ToBinary in the docs(). I don't see any guarantee on the range used (apart from 64bits, which is not enough to prevent overflow).

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  2. Yuri ChebotarevNovember 18, 2008 at 2:07 AM

    ะก# 3.0 way:
    Array.Sort(availableDates, (x1,x2)=>Math.Sign(x2.ToBinary() - x1.ToBinary()));
    ;)

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