thanks for all the advice everyone, helps no end :)

Thanks Aia, cleared up a lot for me, esp the quoted part :)

Glad i signed up now :)

also, i have added the bubble sort to the code but it isnt swapping the pointers stored in the array and i know it is something to do with the swap method, but i just cant see what it is.

again...

worked a treat, thank you.

any chance you could explain what I was doing and what strcpy() does differently, just for future reference?

thanks again

Hi (first post :) ),
I have a coursework where we have to read in 50 lines from a file (bubble.txt), sort them into length order and then print them out (its not the whole coursework, just a part)....