I’m looking for a simple, easy to understand algorithm to alphabetically sort an array of characters in C.
I’m looking for a simple, easy to understand algorithm to alphabetically sort an array
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I’m looking for a simple, easy to understand algorithm to alphabetically sort an array of characters in C.
characters in C have numeric values that happen to be in order, so you just treat your characters like integers. the C standard library includes a ‘qsort’ function. Use that (
man qsorton a linux-like system). You might have to convert upper-case letters to lowercase to simplify things, but that’s trivial. If you want to understand the quicksort algorithm (that’s the one you should learn, because you’ll actually use it), see Wikipedia.