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Procedure Abstract Required_Reading Keywords Brief_I/O Detailed_Input | Detailed_Output Parameters Exceptions Files Particulars Examples | Restrictions Literature_References Author_and_Institution Version Index_Entries
#### Procedure
       void orderc_c ( SpiceInt      lenvals,
                       const void  * array,
                       SpiceInt      ndim,
                       SpiceInt    * iorder  )
#### Abstract
       Determine the order of elements in an array of character strings.
#### Required_Reading
       None.
#### Keywords
       ARRAY,  SORT
#### Brief_I/O
       VARIABLE  I/O  DESCRIPTION
       --------  ---  --------------------------------------------------
       lenvals    I   String length.
       array      I   Input array.
       ndim       I   Dimension of array.
       iorder     O   Order vector for array.
#### Detailed_Input
       lenvals     is the declared length of the strings in the input
                   string array, including null terminators.  The input
                   array should be declared with dimension

                      [ndim][lenvals]

       array       is the input array.

       ndim        is the number of elements in the input array.
#### Detailed_Output
       iorder      is the order vector for the input array.
                   iorder[0] is the index of the smallest element
                   of array; iorder[1] is the index of the next
                   smallest; and so on. Strings are ordered according
                   to the ASCII collating sequence.  Trailing white space
                   is ignored when comparing strings.

                   The elements of iorder range from zero to ndim-1.
#### Parameters
       None.
#### Exceptions
       1) If the input string pointer is null, the error
          SPICE(NULLPOINTER) will be signaled.

       2) If the input array string's length is less than 2, the error
          SPICE(STRINGTOOSHORT) will be signaled.

       3) If ndim < 1, this routine returns immediately.  This case is not
          considered an error.
#### Files
       None.
#### Particulars
       orderc_c finds the index of the smallest element of the input
       array. This becomes the first element of the order vector.
       The process is repeated for the rest of the elements.

       The order vector returned by orderc_c may be used by any of
       the reord* routines to sort sets of related arrays, as shown
       in the example below.
#### Examples
       In the following example, the order and reord routines are
       used to sort four related arrays (containing the names,
       masses, integer ID codes, and visual magnitudes for a group
       of satellites). This is representative of the typical use of
       these routines.

           #include "SpiceUsr.h"
               .
               .
               .
           /.
           Sort the object arrays by name.
           ./

           orderc_c ( namlen, names, n,  iorder );

           reordc_c ( iorder, n, namlen, names  );
           reordd_c ( iorder, n,         masses );
           reordi_c ( iorder, n,         codes  );
           reordd_c ( iorder, n,         vmags  );
#### Restrictions
       1)  String comparisons performed by this routine are Fortran-style:
           trailing blanks in the input array or key value are ignored.
           This gives consistent behavior with CSPICE code generated by
           the f2c translator, as well as with the Fortran SPICE Toolkit.

           Note that this behavior is not identical to that of the ANSI
           C library functions strcmp and strncmp.
#### Literature_References
       None.
#### Author_and_Institution
       N.J. Bachman    (JPL)
       I.M. Underwood  (JPL)
#### Version
       -CSPICE Version 1.0.0, 18-JUL-2002 (NJB) (IMU)
#### Index_Entries
       order of a character array
#### Link to routine orderc_c source file orderc_c.c

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