thanks, i'll try this.

that's what I am looking for, but a non-.NET version

yeah, i know, was just looking for a function that was already written and handled all of them rather than doing them each individually. trying to do it the most laz.. I mean efficient way and use...

looking for a function that will htmlencode a cstring

ok, what do you have so far

to find the number of digits in int x

if (x < 0)
x = -x;
int count = 1;
x = x/10;
while( x > 0)
{
count++;
x = x/10;

post your new code

replace:
while ((player1!='r')||(player1!='R')
|| (player1!='p') || (player1!='P')
|| (player1!='s') || (player1!='S')
|| (player1!='q') || (player1!='Q'))

with

while...

I guess you could find a way to do it without arrays, but I don't know why you would want to. What function are you using to compare the names to see which one should be first

you could do it either way. Personally, I would sort first and then figure the grade and the average. If you do it the other way, just two extra things that have to be swapped when you do the sort

post the code your are using to sort

You are going to need to store the information as you read it in, do the sort and then write it back out. Can't write each line as you read it in AND sort at same time. my c/c++ is a little rusty...

what is the format that it has to be in?