1*572c4311Sfengbojiang-- two implementations of a sort function 2*572c4311Sfengbojiang-- this is an example only. Lua has now a built-in function "sort" 3*572c4311Sfengbojiang 4*572c4311Sfengbojiang-- extracted from Programming Pearls, page 110 5*572c4311Sfengbojiangfunction qsort(x,l,u,f) 6*572c4311Sfengbojiang if l<u then 7*572c4311Sfengbojiang local m=math.random(u-(l-1))+l-1 -- choose a random pivot in range l..u 8*572c4311Sfengbojiang x[l],x[m]=x[m],x[l] -- swap pivot to first position 9*572c4311Sfengbojiang local t=x[l] -- pivot value 10*572c4311Sfengbojiang m=l 11*572c4311Sfengbojiang local i=l+1 12*572c4311Sfengbojiang while i<=u do 13*572c4311Sfengbojiang -- invariant: x[l+1..m] < t <= x[m+1..i-1] 14*572c4311Sfengbojiang if f(x[i],t) then 15*572c4311Sfengbojiang m=m+1 16*572c4311Sfengbojiang x[m],x[i]=x[i],x[m] -- swap x[i] and x[m] 17*572c4311Sfengbojiang end 18*572c4311Sfengbojiang i=i+1 19*572c4311Sfengbojiang end 20*572c4311Sfengbojiang x[l],x[m]=x[m],x[l] -- swap pivot to a valid place 21*572c4311Sfengbojiang -- x[l+1..m-1] < x[m] <= x[m+1..u] 22*572c4311Sfengbojiang qsort(x,l,m-1,f) 23*572c4311Sfengbojiang qsort(x,m+1,u,f) 24*572c4311Sfengbojiang end 25*572c4311Sfengbojiangend 26*572c4311Sfengbojiang 27*572c4311Sfengbojiangfunction selectionsort(x,n,f) 28*572c4311Sfengbojiang local i=1 29*572c4311Sfengbojiang while i<=n do 30*572c4311Sfengbojiang local m,j=i,i+1 31*572c4311Sfengbojiang while j<=n do 32*572c4311Sfengbojiang if f(x[j],x[m]) then m=j end 33*572c4311Sfengbojiang j=j+1 34*572c4311Sfengbojiang end 35*572c4311Sfengbojiang x[i],x[m]=x[m],x[i] -- swap x[i] and x[m] 36*572c4311Sfengbojiang i=i+1 37*572c4311Sfengbojiang end 38*572c4311Sfengbojiangend 39*572c4311Sfengbojiang 40*572c4311Sfengbojiangfunction show(m,x) 41*572c4311Sfengbojiang io.write(m,"\n\t") 42*572c4311Sfengbojiang local i=1 43*572c4311Sfengbojiang while x[i] do 44*572c4311Sfengbojiang io.write(x[i]) 45*572c4311Sfengbojiang i=i+1 46*572c4311Sfengbojiang if x[i] then io.write(",") end 47*572c4311Sfengbojiang end 48*572c4311Sfengbojiang io.write("\n") 49*572c4311Sfengbojiangend 50*572c4311Sfengbojiang 51*572c4311Sfengbojiangfunction testsorts(x) 52*572c4311Sfengbojiang local n=1 53*572c4311Sfengbojiang while x[n] do n=n+1 end; n=n-1 -- count elements 54*572c4311Sfengbojiang show("original",x) 55*572c4311Sfengbojiang qsort(x,1,n,function (x,y) return x<y end) 56*572c4311Sfengbojiang show("after quicksort",x) 57*572c4311Sfengbojiang selectionsort(x,n,function (x,y) return x>y end) 58*572c4311Sfengbojiang show("after reverse selection sort",x) 59*572c4311Sfengbojiang qsort(x,1,n,function (x,y) return x<y end) 60*572c4311Sfengbojiang show("after quicksort again",x) 61*572c4311Sfengbojiangend 62*572c4311Sfengbojiang 63*572c4311Sfengbojiang-- array to be sorted 64*572c4311Sfengbojiangx={"Jan","Feb","Mar","Apr","May","Jun","Jul","Aug","Sep","Oct","Nov","Dec"} 65*572c4311Sfengbojiang 66*572c4311Sfengbojiangtestsorts(x) 67