Sorting data in a datagrid in flash 8 professional

Question

I have an array in flash 8 that is used to poulate a datagrid using

myDataGrid.dataProvider = myArray;

This works fine. I can sort the data in the grid using the headers but this also sorts the data in the array, and I have other functions that need to get the array data in its unsorted form.

Any idea how to achive this?

Many thanks

Answer 1

just duplicate the variable before you use it as the dataProvider.

var myDataProvider:Array = myArray

myDataGrid.dataProvider = myDataProvider

changes to one of these arrays won't effect the other.