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instance method

Array#sort!

array.sort! → self

array.sort! {|a, b| ... } → self

VALUE
rb_ary_sort_bang(VALUE ary)
{
    rb_ary_modify(ary);
    assert(!ARY_SHARED_P(ary));
    if (RARRAY_LEN(ary) > 1) {
        VALUE tmp = ary_make_substitution(ary); /* only ary refers tmp */
        struct ary_sort_data data;
        long len = RARRAY_LEN(ary);
        RBASIC_CLEAR_CLASS(tmp);
        data.ary = tmp;
        data.cmp_opt.opt_methods = 0;
        data.cmp_opt.opt_inited = 0;
        RARRAY_PTR_USE(tmp, ptr, {
            ruby_qsort(ptr, len, sizeof(VALUE),
                       rb_block_given_p()?sort_1:sort_2, &data);
        }); /* WB: no new reference */
        rb_ary_modify(ary);
        if (ARY_EMBED_P(tmp)) {
            if (ARY_SHARED_P(ary)) { /* ary might be destructively operated in the given block */
                rb_ary_unshare(ary);
                FL_SET_EMBED(ary);
            }
            ary_memcpy(ary, 0, ARY_EMBED_LEN(tmp), ARY_EMBED_PTR(tmp));
            ARY_SET_LEN(ary, ARY_EMBED_LEN(tmp));
        }
        else {
            if (!ARY_EMBED_P(ary) && ARY_HEAP_PTR(ary) == ARY_HEAP_PTR(tmp)) {
                FL_UNSET_SHARED(ary);
                ARY_SET_CAPA(ary, RARRAY_LEN(tmp));
            }
            else {
                assert(!ARY_SHARED_P(tmp));
                if (ARY_EMBED_P(ary)) {
                    FL_UNSET_EMBED(ary);
                }
                else if (ARY_SHARED_P(ary)) {
                    /* ary might be destructively operated in the given block */
                    rb_ary_unshare(ary);
                }
                else {
                    ary_heap_free(ary);
                }
                ARY_SET_PTR(ary, ARY_HEAP_PTR(tmp));
                ARY_SET_HEAP_LEN(ary, len);
                ARY_SET_CAPA(ary, ARY_HEAP_LEN(tmp));
            }
            /* tmp was lost ownership for the ptr */
            FL_UNSET(tmp, FL_FREEZE);
            FL_SET_EMBED(tmp);
            ARY_SET_EMBED_LEN(tmp, 0);
            FL_SET(tmp, FL_FREEZE);
        }
        /* tmp will be GC'ed. */
        RBASIC_SET_CLASS_RAW(tmp, rb_cArray); /* rb_cArray must be marked */
    }
    ary_verify(ary);
    return ary;
}

Returns self with its elements sorted in place.

With no block, compares elements using operator <=> (see Comparable):

Example

a = 'abcde'.split('').shuffle
a # => ["e", "b", "d", "a", "c"]
a.sort!
a # => ["a", "b", "c", "d", "e"]

With a block, calls the block with each element pair; for each element pair a and b, the block should return an integer:

Negative when b is to follow a.
Zero when a and b are equivalent.
Positive when a is to follow b.

Example:

Example

a = 'abcde'.split('').shuffle
a # => ["e", "b", "d", "a", "c"]
a.sort! {|a, b| a <=> b }
a # => ["a", "b", "c", "d", "e"]
a.sort! {|a, b| b <=> a }
a # => ["e", "d", "c", "b", "a"]

When the block returns zero, the order for a and b is indeterminate, and may be unstable:

Example

a = 'abcde'.split('').shuffle
a # => ["e", "b", "d", "a", "c"]
a.sort! {|a, b| 0 }
a # => ["d", "e", "c", "a", "b"]

See also #sort #sort_by! #slice! #sum also in 4.1 · 4.0 · 3.4 · 3.3 · 3.2 · 3.1

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