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Soting objects by diatance from a point

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ben017f

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Hi all,
I have about 1500 objects that have an x and a y property. I would like to be able to sort them by distance from a point in the plane. Something like the following would be great:

x.searchNearest(20,list)

would return a list of the the 20 objects in list that are closest to x in the plane.

I'd just like some ideas to play with on how to impliment this.

Thanks in advance,
Ben
 
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