Recently a customer reported that a rather simple dynamic array (@FM/@VM) was failing to sort correctly using the SRP_Sort_Array function. Actually, that was an understatement. It wasn't that the array failed to sort...the array became almost unrecognizable. What made this even more interesting was that this customer was having great success with much larger arrays. A mystery indeed.

After debugging the code it didn't take long to identify the problem. Some fields in this array had more values than others. An underlying assumption of our logic was that all arrays will have the same number of minor delimiter elements. Well, obviously this isn't always the case so we updated the SRP_Sort_Array to support this situation. We were gratified that even despite this nuisance our customer was quick to comment that "It’s the first time I have used these utilities, and they are good, easy to use, and fast." This was exactly our goal. If you haven't tried this free utility then we encourage you to download a copy from here.