Hi Bob

 BL> Hi all,
 BL>         I wrote a macro in WordBasic which needed to load a directory
 BL> of sorted files into a dialog array, and I've always thought there had
 BL> to be a neat way to sort the files as they go into the array, rather
 BL> than do it twice. This is it.


 BL>   All I do is load the first filename into the aray (to avoid a nul),
 BL> then check the next filename against the array from the top-down,
 BL> moving them all up one until I find one that isn't larger. Then I
 BL> write the new filename one-up... unless it's the 0-th in the array in
 BL> which case I write it there. That way, if the files are already
 BL> sorted, I don't have to do anything but write the names in.

Neat. This is the insertion sort. One nifty feature of it is that
it can run quicker on a "nearly sorted" array.

 BL>   It's pretty quick...

True. It's only worth pursuing more complex sorting routines if
you're sorting huge numbers of things.

Cheers

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