Please could you give me an example of sorting an array and how to call the function at the main

thanks a lot :o :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

how do you wish to sort it?

thanks alot for helping me but could you please give me an easier example (a more basic one) im new to programming

thank you :lol: :lol: :cry: :cry: :cry:

>please give me an easier example
That's as easy as it gets. If you want something more basic then you're looking at writing a sort function manually, and that's decidedly not basic compared to just calling std::sort.

Is this a homework assignment?

you didnt tell us how you want the array sorting! Perhaps highest value to lowest if its int?

thanks all for helping me

i want to sort the array from the lowest to the highest

its a part of my assignment

i've had a look in some books and i found a sorting function, the problem is that i don't know how to call it at the void main(). I think i need somehow to call the sorted array, any body can help pleazzzzzz!!

thanks again :cry: :cry: :cry:

Wouldn't you just define the function and then call it from within main()? I think you might want to review your textbook some more on functions. I'm not worth my salt as a programmer, and I could tell you this much.

Also, I'm sure Narue might mention this, but I know you're not supposed to use void main(). I'm not entirely sure why, and I don't want to guess, but I have an idea why. Care to elaborate further on this, Narue?

I'm not Narue, but I try to be that good. I merely have this to offer.

An example in C, sorry but venerable old C was all I could find in a hurry!
[PHP]// sort of an array of random integers using shell-sort
// an optimized insertion sort developed by Donald Shell
// Pelles C

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h> // rand()

#define NUM_ITEMS 100

void shellSort(int numbers[], int array_size);

int numbers[NUM_ITEMS];

int main()
{
int k;

//fill array with random integers
for (k = 0; k < NUM_ITEMS; k++)
numbers[k] = rand() % NUM_ITEMS;

//perform shell sort on array
shellSort(numbers, NUM_ITEMS);

// show the sorted numbers
for (k = 0; k < NUM_ITEMS; k++)
printf("%8d ", numbers[k]);
getchar();
return 0;
}

// shell sort routine of n items in array[n]
void shellSort(int numbers[], int array_size)
{
int i, j, increment, temp;

increment = 3;
while (increment > 0)
{
for (i = 0; i < array_size; i++)
{
j = i;
temp = numbers[i];
while ((j >= increment) && (numbers[j-increment] > temp))
{
numbers[j] = numbers[j - increment];
j = j - increment;
}
numbers[j] = temp;
}
if (increment/2 != 0)
increment = increment/2;
else if (increment == 1)
increment = 0;
else
increment = 1;
}
}
[/PHP]