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MergeSort – A stable sort

‘ MergeSort. A stable sort (preserves original order of records with equal ‘ keys). Like HeapSort, easily adapted to any data type and guaranteed to run ‘ in O(N log

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SelectionSort – Short, simple and sloooow

‘ SelectionSort. Short, simple and sloooow. This is another O(N^2) sort that ‘ should never be used on long lists. Like InsertionSort,’ it needs no extra memory (in place) and

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ShuttleMergeSort – An improved MergeSort

‘ 2/4/03. The previous version of ShuttleMergeSort failed on very short lists. ‘ The code below corrects the problem and eliminates a couple of unnecessary ‘ variables. Sorting times for

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Ternary QuickSort – A modification of QuickSort

‘ Ternary QuickSort. See the summary of QuickSort for background before ‘ reading this one. Ternary QuickSort (also called MultiKey QuickSort) differs ‘ from the original QuickSort by examining keys

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GetHtmlPageSource – Get the HTML of a page using MSXML library

‘ Getting the HTML code of any page on the web’ NOTE: requires the Microsoft XML library’ Example:’ Text1.Text = GetHtmlPageSource(“http://www.vb2themax.com/Default.asp”)Function GetHtmlPageSource(ByVal URL As String) Dim objHTTP As New XMLHTTP

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Release COM objects immediately

When you use a COM or COM+ from a .NET application and then you set the object reference to Nothing (or let it go out of scope), the object isn’t