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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? |
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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? -- Dave Peterson |
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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. -- Cordially, Chip Pearson Microsoft MVP - Excel Pearson Software Consulting, LLC www.cpearson.com (email address is on the web site) "DNALESOR" wrote in message ... 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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