sort_according

///sort_according(obj,variable,ascending);

/*
    This scripts stores all instances of a selected objects into an array and sorts them according to variable
    Useful if you want to store drivers in a race game to find out who's 1st, 2nd, etc.

    argument0: object
    argument1: string of the variable you want to check
    argument2: boolean if true (123) if false (321)
*/

var length = instance_number(argument0);
var counter = 0;
var object_array, temp_array, bool, array;

//Store Instances
for (var i = 0; i < length; i++)
{
    object_array[i] = instance_find(argument0,i);
    bool[i] = true;
}

//Sort By adding smallest values that haven't been picked yet one after the other
repeat(length)
{
    var value = 999999999; //Really dumb, I would use array_max()+1, but I don't feel like it.
    var index = 0;
    for (var i = 0; i < length; i++)
    {
        if (variable_instance_get(object_array[i],argument1) < value)
        {
            if (bool[i])
            {
            value = variable_instance_get(object_array[i],argument1);
            index = i;
            }
        }
    }
    temp_array[counter] = object_array[index];
    bool[index] = false;
    counter++;
}

//Ascending or Descending
if (!argument2)
{
    for (var i = 0; i < array_length_1d(temp_array); i++)
    {array[i] = temp_array[array_length_1d(temp_array)-1-i];}
}
else
{array = temp_array;}

return array;