[Sputnik53]

Is there a quick and painless way to randomize an array? I'm taking the normal player array of alive players and want to do things to them in a random order.

I actually have a few other array related questions aswell (since they seem like black magic to me).

#2: How do I set a 2 dimensional array with strings, like
"blabla" "xd"
"buuhoo" "xp"
and then retrive the second string by searching with the first one.

#3: How do I sort the list of alive players by health for example?

Sorry I'm such a noob, can't find proper answers by searching.

[drekes]

http://forums.alliedmods.net/showthread.php?t=74666

[Exolent[jNr]]

2. Loop through the array until the keys match, then get the 2nd string.
I can't really help more without seeing a real use/example.

3. SortCustom1D()

[Sputnik53]

Originally Posted by Exolent[jNr] 2. Loop through the array until the keys match, then get the 2nd string. I can't really help more without seeing a real use/example.

I want to rename a few players with an array that has the player names and their replacement names set.

Originally Posted by Exolent[jNr] 3. SortCustom1D()

What does the extra data part do in this function? Perhaps you could give an example on how to sort players by their health.

[Exolent[jNr]]

2. Your best method would be to use a Trie for storing by keys.

3. I'll show you an example of some other sorting so you can learn how it works.

// lets sort these lowest to highest
new values[] = {1, 6, 2, 10, 5, 3, 6};

// call sort function
SortCustom1D(values, sizeof(values), "SortValues");

// result:
//values[] = {1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 6, 10}

// ..

public SortValues(value1, value2, array[], data[], dataSize) {
    // value1 and value2 are the values from the array, not indexes
    
    // remember, sorting with lowest first
    if(value1 < value2) {
        // value1 is lower, so return -1 showing that it goes before value2
        return -1;
    }
    else if(value1 > value2) {
        // value2 is lower, so return 1 showing that it goes before value1
        return 1;
    }
    
    // values are equal, so return 0 showing there was no difference
    return 0;
}