Re: How to sort a vector and then append data

From: David Jones (dajxxx_at_ceh.ac.uk)
Date: 07/30/04 

Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 17:02:28 +0100

Catherine Rees Lay wrote:
> In article <bc7de858.0407291749.a785b3c@posting.google.com>, joel
> GUERRERO <joegi.geo@yahoo.com> writes
>> Hi,
>> I'm not very experienced using fortran 90, and probably this will
>> looks a stupid question for you.
>>
>> I need to sort a vector and then append the missing data that is:
>>
>> Suppose that we have the following vector: 3 1 2 5 15
>>
>> I need to sort it, that is i need to get: 1 2 3 5 15
>>
>> and then append the missing numbers in order to get the following
>> vector:
>>
>> 1 2 3 -4- 5 -6- -7- -8- -9- -10- -11- -12- -13- -14- 15
>>
>> Hoper you can help me,
>>
>> Joel
>
> OK, that's bizarre, because there's no need to do ANY sorting to get
> your desired answer. Just find the maximum value in your vector,
> allocate a new one that long, and set each element equal to its
index.
> Much more efficient than sorting. You'll also need the minimum value
> and an offset if your minimum value isn't necessarily 1.
>
> Of course, if this is a homework problem, you'll have to do it the
way
> you describe. Have a go first and you'll get lots of help here, ask
> others to do the work for you and you generally won't.
>
> Catherine.

Who knows what the OP meant? But... a very close look at what was sent
may lead one to think that what is required is a string "-n-" if n did
not occur, and a string " n " if n did occur, or something like that.

David Jones

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