by Spyo (2 Submissions)
Category: Coding Standards
Compatability: Visual Basic 5.0
Difficulty: Beginner
Date Added: Wed 3rd February 2021
Rating: 
(3 Votes)
This is an easy, simple and quick code to sorte up a bunch of text lines, say you merged 2 text files and then use this code?.. it only care about the first letter of each line but its easy to add the full line if needed, look
VBcoders
Revised, it was nice and simple but failed
too many text files, thanks for all inputs
Also Add a Text1 Multi line = True
and Command1 to a Form then dump all the code
below into the form, please comment some more
Option Explicit
Private Sub Command1_Click()
Dim Ray() As String, Oui As Boolean, z As Byte
Dim TmpRay As New Collection
Dim i As Integer, x As Integer, y As Integer
Dim No As Integer, Pas As Integer
z = 255
'last asc caracter also it is max up for a byte var
Oui = False
' a good name for a true false var, Oui mean Yes in french
TmpRay.Add "ΓΏ"
'last possible caracter Asc255 added only for the first comparason
Text1 = "FLine 1" & vbCrLf & "XLine 2" & vbCrLf & "BLine 3" & vbCrLf & "ELine 4" & vbCrLf & "HLine 5" & vbCrLf & "ALine 6" & vbCrLf & "MLine 7" & vbCrLf & "BLine 8" & vbCrLf & "GLine 9"
Ray() = Split(Text1, vbCrLf)
For Pas = 0 To UBound(Ray)
'we splitted this amount of vdCrLt so we set it as max
For i = 0 To UBound(Ray)
'this is how many comparason per pass
x = Asc(Left(Ray(i), 1))
If x < z Then
'it may be lower lets see if its a reapeat
No = 0
Do
No = No + 1
If Ray(i) = TmpRay(No) Then
Oui = True
'while in do loop,saw it was already there
End If
Loop Until No = TmpRay.Count
' after No is equal to the collection we see if oui is still false
If Oui = False Then
z = x
'z reset at 255 then keep shrinking till nothing is lower
y = i
'y will hold the lowest possible line
End If
End If
Oui = False
'reset the oui to False default value
Next i
TmpRay.Add Ray(y)
'finally sorted, unique values are added to collection
z = 255 ' reset time
Oui = False ' reset time
Next Pas
TmpRay.Remove (1)
'deleting the asc255 value from the start
Text1 = ""
'to save lines i use this same bow to load the string now it need clearing
For i = 1 To TmpRay.Count
' max amount in the collection
Text1 = Text1 & TmpRay(i) & vbCrLf
'adding them to anything we want, textbox in this case
Next i
End Sub
