Chapter 2. Searching and Sorting

Section 2.1.  Introduction

Section 2.2.  Sorting a Dictionary

Section 2.3.  Processing Selected Pairs of Structured Data Efficiently

Section 2.4.  Sorting While Guaranteeing Sort Stability

Section 2.5.  Sorting by One Field, Then by Another

Section 2.6.  Looking for Items in a Sorted Sequence Using Binary Search

Section 2.7.  Sorting a List of Objects by an Attribute of the Objects

Section 2.8.  Sorting by Item or by Attribute

Section 2.9.  Selecting Random Elements from a List Without Repetition

Section 2.10.  Performing Frequent Membership Tests on a Sequence

Section 2.11.  Finding the Deep Index of an Item in an Embedded Sequence

Section 2.12.  Showing Off Quicksort in Three Lines

Section 2.13.  Sorting Objects Using SQL's ORDER BY Syntax