Below is a method that will sort the array based off the length of the elements in the array.

// Method: Sort_Array_By_Length // Parameters // $1 - Pointer to array to be sorted // $2 - (1) to sort by increasing order, (-1) to sort by decreasing order // ---------------------------------------------------- C_POINTER($arr;$1) C_LONGINT($i;$order;$2) $arr:=$1 If (Count parameters>1)   $order:=$2   If ($order#1) & ($order#-1)     $order:=1   End if Else   $order:=1 End if $arrSize:=Size of array($arr->) ARRAY LONGINT($arrL;0) For ($i;1;$arrSize)   APPEND TO ARRAY($arrL;Length(String($arr->{$i}))) End for ARRAY POINTER($ptrArr;2) ARRAY LONGINT($srtArr;2) $ptrArr{1}:=$arr $srtArr{1}:=0 $ptrArr{2}:=->$arrL $srtArr{2}:=$order MULTI SORT ARRAY($ptrArr;$srtArr)

Below are a couple of examples of sorting an array. Assume the following array"

ARRAY TEXT($arr;0) APPEND TO ARRAY($arr;"1234") APPEND TO ARRAY($arr;"12345") APPEND TO ARRAY($arr;"1") APPEND TO ARRAY($arr;"123") APPEND TO ARRAY($arr;"12") APPEND TO ARRAY($arr;"2") APPEND TO ARRAY($arr;"21")

The following code sorts the array by the length of the elements in increasing order:

UTIL_SORT_ARRAY_BY_LENGTH(->$arr;1)

The code above will yield the following results:


The following code sorts the array by the length of the elements in decreasing order:

UTIL_SORT_ARRAY_BY_LENGTH(->$arr;-1)

The code above will yield the following results: