Re: STL stable_sort sorting issue
sandy wrote:
some_holder.push_back("aaa");
some_holder.push_back("bbb");
some_holder.push_back("AAA");
some_holder.push_back("BBB");
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 ?
It's not, except by coincidence. With a stable sort, elements that
compare equal are in the same relative order after the sort as they were
before the sort. Since "aaa" and "AAA" compare equal under your sort and
"aaa" comes before "AAA" in the vector before the sort, "aaa" will come
before "AAA" after the sort. Same thing for "bbb" and "BBB".
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