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Re: sorting characters in a string... help!!!!

Jan 1st, 2009

Look, you have that #include<string.h> right? So why don't you use c++ strings? It's like

string str;
str = "whatever"

and it's easier.
Now this

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for(int b=0;b<=(strlen(a)-1);b++)
   {
      for(int c=0;c<=(strlen(a)-2);c++)
      {
	 if(strcmp(a[c],a[c+1])<0) //I DON"T THINK THIS IS RIGHT
	 {
	    strcpy(temp,a[c]);
	    strcpy(a[c],a[c+1]);
	    strcpy(a[c],temp);
	 }
      }
   }
  
for(int b=0;b<=(strlen(a)-1);b++)
   {
      for(int c=0;c<=(strlen(a)-2);c++)
      {
	 if(strcmp(a[c],a[c+1])<0) //I DON"T THINK THIS IS RIGHT
	 {
	    strcpy(temp,a[c]);
	    strcpy(a[c],a[c+1]);
	    strcpy(a[c],temp);
	 }
      }
   }

is a mess. You could just compare a[c] < a[c+1] cuz this are characters, not strings and they are already sorted in ASCII.

Could you please explain what the program is supposed to do?

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