natsort() or sort

[Beauford2]

I have an array that will have 5 numbers in it, what I need to do is sort this and have it return the array so I can manipulate the sorted array.

natsort() and sort only return true or false, which does not help me. So I need an alternative that will do what I need.

Example: The array may contain the following numbers in this order: 3 2 6 5 4

After it is sorted I want it to be like this: 2 3 4 5 6

I don't care if the original array is changed or if a new duplcate array is created. I just need a sorted array.

Any help is appreciate.

😕😕😕

[bradgrafelman]

If this is an array of integers, there's no need to do natural sorting and [man]sort/man should suffice.

Note, however, that [man]sort/man also returns true or false. That's because both sort() and natsort() actually modify the array you pass (by reference) to that function.

[Beauford2]

Maybe I am missing something but I am just not getting this. If sort() does not return the array, then how can I do anything with the sorted data, other than just look at it, which I don't even want to do.

I need it so I can convert the sorted array it to a string using the implode() function.

Every search I do on this shows people using print_r to view it, but I am just not getting the purpose of this.

Any help on this would be great.

[dagon]

<?php
$str="3 2 6 5 4";

$a=explode(' ',$str);
sort($a);
$b=implode(' ',$a);

echo $b;
?>

[bradgrafelman]

As I said (and as dagon's code snippet shows), [man]sort/man and the other array sorting functions modify the array you pass to them.