Merge Sort in VBA in MS Project

brodaddy02

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I can't seem to get the merge sort working. I think it has something to do with CopyMemory function call. I am trying to use it in MS Project. Code works on a smaller test data, but my 27000 data array the code doesn't work. Code is taken from
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Code:
Public Declare PtrSafe Sub CopyMemory Lib "kernel32" Alias _    "RtlMoveMemory" (destination As Date, source As Date, _
    ByVal length As Long)

Public Sub MergeSort(ByRef keyArray() As String, ByRef list() As Date, ByVal first_index As Long, ByVal last_index As Long)
    Dim middle As Long


    If (last_index > first_index) Then
        ' Recursively sort the two halves of the list.
        middle = (first_index + last_index) \ 2
        MergeSort keyArray, list, first_index, middle
        MergeSort keyArray, list, middle + 1, last_index


        ' Merge the results.
        Merge keyArray, list, first_index, middle, last_index
    End If
End Sub


' Merge two sorted sublists.
Public Sub Merge(ByRef keyArray() As String, ByRef list() As Date, ByVal beginning As Long, ByVal middle As Long, ByVal ending As Long)
    Dim temp_array() As Date  'holds temporary list data
    Dim temp_Key_Array() As String
    Dim temp As Long
    Dim counterA As Long
    Dim counterB As Long
    Dim counterMain As Long
    Dim i As Long


        ' Copy the array into a temporary array.
        ReDim temp_array(beginning To ending)
        ReDim temp_Key_Array(beginning To ending)
        CopyMemory temp_array(beginning), list(beginning), _
            (ending - beginning + 1) * Len(list(beginning))


        For i = beginning To ending
            temp_Key_Array(i) = keyArray(i)
        Next i

        ' counterA and counterB mark the next item to save
        ' in the first and second halves of the list.
        counterA = beginning
        counterB = middle + 1


        ' counterMain is the index where we will put the
        ' next item in the merged list.
        counterMain = beginning
        Do While (counterA <= middle) And (counterB <= ending)
            ' Find the smaller of the two items at the front
            ' of the two sublists.
            If (temp_array(counterA) <= temp_array(counterB)) _
                Then
                ' The smaller value is in the first half.
                list(counterMain) = temp_array(counterA)
                keyArray(counterMain) = temp_Key_Array(counterA)
                counterA = counterA + 1
            Else
                ' The smaller value is in the second half.
                list(counterMain) = temp_array(counterB)
                keyArray(counterMain) = temp_Key_Array(counterB)
                counterB = counterB + 1
            End If
            counterMain = counterMain + 1
        Loop


        ' Copy any remaining items from the first half.
        If counterA <= middle Then
            CopyMemory list(counterMain), temp_array(counterA), _
                (middle - counterA + 1) * Len(list(beginning))
        End If


        ' Copy any remaining items from the second half.
        If counterB <= ending Then
            CopyMemory list(counterMain), temp_array(counterB), _
                (ending - counterB + 1) * Len(list(beginning))
        End If


End Sub
 

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