230839 - javascript regexp doesnt sort list items

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Stuart Anderson]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030225
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030225

If you select one of the left frame menus, select a squaring for display and hit
the draw button, a squared square (or squared rectangle) is displayed in the
right frame menu.  Also the dimensions of the square or rectangle are displayed,
along with the bouwkampcode [concise notation describing the squaring], also a
list of the elements within the square or rectangle are given.  This is where
the bug is - the elements should be listed in ascending order by size, however
the Mozilla implementation of regexp doesnt perform the sorting. Other browsers
(IE, Netscape) handle the sorting correctly.



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. go to http://www.squaring.net
2. click Simple Perfect Squares (spss) in left frame menu
3. click spss order 21 1/1 in left frame menu
4. click spss order 21 112 in left frame menu
5. click draw button in right top frame menu

Actual Results:  
The tiling is drawn correctly but the listing of Elements (to the right of the
tiling is unsorted) eg , 50, 35, 42, 29, 25, 15, 18, 27, 37, 24, 8, 19, 9, 2, 7,
17, 16, 11, 4, 6, 33

Expected Results:  
Mozilla should have sorted the Elements ie 2, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 15, 16, 17, 18,
19, 24, 25, 27, 29, 33, 35, 37, 42, 50        

Below is some of the javascript, html and regexp used;

var com,dom,el,elem;

      com = /\)\(/g;

	dom = /,/g;

      el = Size.sort(max);

      elem = new String(el.toString());

the html is created from a javascript document.write() command.  The particular
part where the Elements appear is;
#### cut here ####
<td VALIGN="top"><SPAN style="font-family:Arial;
font-size:10pt">'+elem.replace(dom,", ")+'</SPAN></td></tr>
#### cut here ####

the complete javascript	can be viewed at
http://www.squaring.net/javascript/bouwkamp.js

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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