On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 7:38 PM, John Taylor-Johnston <jt.johnston@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > David OBrien wrote: >> >> On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 1:15 PM, John Taylor-Johnston >> <jt.johnston@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:jt.johnston@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> Sorting question. http://www.php.net/manual/en/array.sorting.php >> >> I'm using ksort, which sorts like this. >> I don't want to use strolower. >> Is there a function/switch in one of the sort functions where I >> could get another aphabetical sort? >> >> http://www.php.net/manual/en/array.sorting.php has a lot of >> options. I,m not sure which one I should choose. >> >> This is what I get: >> >> LABRADOR CITY >> LACOSTA >> LARGE >> Labrador >> Labrador City >> Labrador Sea >> Lacosta >> Large >> labrador >> labrador sea >> lacosta >> large >> >> >> This is what I want: >> >> LABRADOR >> Labrador >> labrador >> LABRADOR CITY >> Labrador City >> Labrador Sea >> labrador sea >> LACOSTA >> Lacosta >> lacosta >> LARGE >> Large >> large >> >> >> natsort >> natcasesort > > I'm sorting the key. It doesn't work. ksort is the only choice I have, > right? > > Ok, let's approach this question differently. > Right now the frequency of each word is in value. > How do I put the frequency of each word in the key? > try array_flip(), keep in mind though, that when two words have the same frequency, one of them will get lost because the keys are identical. > I'm fuzzy when it comes to arrays. I can do this is MySQL. All I need is an > id and two varchars and then I know how to sort any way I want. But I am > processing dynamic text files. MySQL is not an option; data changes too > much. PHP is faster and more efficient. I'm just no good at arrays. > > Here is my code: > ---------------snip------------------- > $mynewstring = "http://foo.com/bigtextfile.txt";; > > $words = preg_split('/[[:space:]]+/',$mynewstring); > > foreach ($words as $word) { > $freq[$word]++; > } > > #natcasesort($freq); > ksort($freq); > > John You can try uksort with a custom compare function. - Matijn -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
