Sorting Sections of a List

Today I had to tackle the problem of sorting only a section of a list, not the entire thing. Fortunately, Sort() has an overload that already does this for you:

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;

namespace PartialSorts
{
  internal static class Program
  {
    private static void Main(string[] args)
    {
      List<int> values = new List<int>() { 5, 2, 8, 6, 1 };
      values.Sort(1, 3, null);
            
      foreach(int value in values)
      {
        Console.Out.WriteLine(value);
      }
    }
  }
}

Running the code produces this:

Note that the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th values were sorted, but the 1st and 5th stayed where they are. Nice!

Published: 01.17.2008 02:06:52 PM CST

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Jason Bock

Sorting Sections of a List