sorting string dates

[icelated]

I am currently reading in a file of 3 books which include (author, title, and date) and printing it.
What i want to do is sort it by date. Im not picky on what to use.

I think i need to check for carriage returns
I think i  need to convert to number's and store them in separate registers. Even, if thats true not sure where to begin!

Im just not sure what to do. I  need some type of algorithm needed to accomplish this.
Or some help

I know i will need some type of case for the month

here is the part that reads in the file and prints it.

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read_file MACRO

   
    mov hFile, fopen("input.txt")


     print chr$(" ",13,10)
     fclose hFile

ENDM




here is the file

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3

Owl Knight
NOV-30-2000



[jj2007]

Convert the entries to format
20091223<tab>Name<tab>etc
and use a simple string sort.

Wrong sub-forum, by the way - your code is 32 bit. Moderator will move it to the campus, I suppose.

[icelated]

What can i use for the string sort? Is there some type of comparison? like a bubble sort?

I cant access the other forum(masm32). I register and they say they send me an email but i never get it. I tried different emails.
So i can use the 3 in the file to know where to look for the date? grab bits and store it in different registers?

[fearless]

If you know the format of the date strong and verify it is correct, you could convert the string date to julian date format - which gives an integer as the date value, which can then be used to compare dates for sorting

[jj2007]

Are you aware of #9?

[dedndave]

i think there is a function written for you in the masm library
look at the help files in the masm32\help folder