Sort 2 arrays the same way, one int, one String

appleliver

Hi

I have 2 arrays, one int, one string and I want to be able to sort them in exactly the same way

String[] animal = {"dog","cat","duck,","pig","cow"};
int[] score = {5,9,3,8,2};

I then proceed to sort score like this:

score = sort(score); 
score = reverse(score);

so score is now like {9,8,5,3,2}

I now want to sort animal the exact same way as if cat is bound to 9 and dog is bound to 5. How can I do this?

KevinWorkman

If I were you, I would create a class called AnimalScore that contained both the String and int value. Then you'd just have a single array that held instances of that class, and you could sort that by the score.

GoToLoop

1. https://Processing.org/reference/IntDict.html
2. https://Processing.org/reference/IntDict_sortKeys_.html
3. https://Processing.org/reference/IntDict_sortValues_.html
4. https://forum.Processing.org/two/discussions/tagged/intdict
5. https://forum.Processing.org/two/discussions/tagged?Tag=sortvalues()

appleliver

Thank you very much, that helps so much!