Re: STL stable_sort sorting issue

From:
peter koch <peter.koch.larsen@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.c++.moderated
Date:
Tue, 29 May 2007 17:43:31 CST
Message-ID:
<1180472053.315119.23790@o5g2000hsb.googlegroups.com>
On 29 Maj, 21:45, sandy <sandip.w...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello C++ Guru,
  I am using STL stable_sort to sort the vector string data using
below code.

#include <iostream>
#include <vector>
#include <string>
#include <algorithm>
using namespace std;

bool my_comparison( string p1, string p2)
{
        //Make first string lower case
        string::iterator StringValueIterator = p1.begin();
        transform (p1.begin(),p1.end(), StringValueIterator,toupper);

        //Make second string lower case
       StringValueIterator = p2.begin();
        transform (p2.begin(),p2.end(), StringValueIterator,toupper);

       return p1 < p2;

}

int main()
{
   typedef vector<string> holder;
   holder some_holder;
   some_holder.push_back("aaa");
   some_holder.push_back("bbb");
   some_holder.push_back("AAA");
   some_holder.push_back("BBB");

   stable_sort(some_holder.begin(),some_holder.end(),my_comparison);
   holder::iterator VectIt = some_holder.begin();
   for( ; VectIt!=some_holder.end(); ++VectIt)
   {
          cout <<*VectIt<< '\n';
   }
   return 0;

}

I got below result :
aaa
AAA
bbb
BBB

When I am expecting result like below :.

AAA
aaa
BBB
bbb

Why it's giving preference to first small case why not upper
letter ?
Can somebody help me in fixing the bug in code.
Any help or suggestion is appreciated.


You don't want a stable sort. A stable sort requires that items that
compare equal keep their relative order and that is exactly what
happens. You need to reconsider your comparison function so that
less("AAA","aaa") returns true if this is your criterion.

/Peter

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