uasort
Sort an array with a user-defined comparison function and maintain index association
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booluasort
arrayarray
callbackcmp_function
This function sorts an array such that array indices maintain their
correlation with the array elements they are associated with, using a
user-defined comparison function.
This is used mainly when sorting associative arrays where the actual
element order is significant.
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array
The input array.
cmp_function
See usort and uksort for
examples of user-defined comparison functions.
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Basic uasort example
4, 'b' => 8, 'c' => -1, 'd' => -9, 'e' => 2, 'f' => 5, 'g' => 3, 'h' => -4);
print_r($array);
// Sort and print the resulting array
uasort($array, 'cmp');
print_r($array);
?>
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4
[b] => 8
[c] => -1
[d] => -9
[e] => 2
[f] => 5
[g] => 3
[h] => -4
)
Array
(
[d] => -9
[h] => -4
[c] => -1
[e] => 2
[g] => 3
[a] => 4
[f] => 5
[b] => 8
)
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usort
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