Which sorting technique does Excel use in the sort function?
 

Does anyone happen to know which sorting technique is used in the sort
function of Excel? Is it bubble sort, shell sort, or interchange sort?

Which sorting technique does Excel use in the sort function?
 

You have an active thread elsewhere.

DNALESOR wrote:

Does anyone happen to know which sorting technique is used in the sort
function of Excel? Is it bubble sort, shell sort, or interchange sort?

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Dave Peterson

Which sorting technique does Excel use in the sort function?
 

Since Excel is written in C/C++, and the standard C library contains qsort,
I would guess, based on nothing else, that some type of implementation of
qsort is used.


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Does anyone happen to know which sorting technique is used in the sort
function of Excel? Is it bubble sort, shell sort, or interchange sort?