Re: STL stable_sort sorting issue

From:
Pete Becker <pete@versatilecoding.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.c++.moderated
Date:
Tue, 29 May 2007 17:48:35 CST
Message-ID:
<jJqdnTbKNJIsBMHbnZ2dnUVZ_vyunZ2d@giganews.com>
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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