Sorting Clothing Items in Ascending Order

[maxnoder1995]

Hi everyone,

I’m working on a project where I need to sort an array of clothing items in ascending order based on a specific sequence. I have three types of clothing items: shoes, pants, and shirt. I want to arrange them in the following order: shoes, pants, and then shirt.

For example:

- Given the 1D string array: pants, shoes, shirt
The output should be: shoes, pants, shirt

- Given the array: pants, pants, shirt, shoes
The output should be: shoes, pants, pants, shirt

- Given the array: shoes, pants, pants, shirt, shoes
The output should be: shoes, shoes, pants, pants, shirt

I’m looking for a way to sort the array such that the items are ordered according to the specified sequence.

thank you!

[altenbach]

Seems simple enough. What have you tried?

[ZYOng · Accepted solution]

This is how I would do it.

[altenbach · Accepted solution]

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@ZYOng wrote:

This is how I would do it.

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and this is how I would do it. 😄

Of course if there could be unlisted items in the array or if we need to ignore upper/lower case, etc. a little bit more code is needed once we know the extra behavior needed.

Comments for the earlier solution posted:

Three stacked structure, two shift registers, two different output tunnels (conditional indexing on a while loop and a concatenating tunnel on a FOR loop), delete from array in a tight loop (big no-no!) all seems a bit convoluted for such a simple problem. 😄

[maxnoder1995]

I did it in key-value form and in a much more complicated way. It definitely makes a lot more sense when I see the solution

[maxnoder1995]

Thanks! its great

[raphschru]

Or alternatively:

which you can easily extend in case you want to sort by multiple criteria.

Regards,

Raphaël.

[Yamaeda]

Just for fun. (i know it can be improved with Maps, but i'm still unused to those)

[NIquist]

Here's a simple "Count and Concatenate" solution that doesn't actually sort anything.