Question

I’m trying to write a code to actually sort my array in an ascending order, so what happen is that say this is what I have.

char myListArray[10][40];
myListArray = "Yeah?",
              "Tomorrow",
              "Again",
              "I will see you";

So what happen is that it should be sort in the order by ASCII value.

Again
I will see you
Tomorrow
Yeah?

I’ve create something like this…

char temp[40];
temp[0] = '\0';           
int i, j, pos = 10, flag = 1;

for(i = 1; (i <= pos) && flag; i++)
{
    flag = 0;
    for (j=0; j < (pos -1); j++)
    {
        if (phrase[i][j+1] > phrase[i][j])     
        {
            strcpy(temp, phrase[i]);
            strcpy(phrase[i], phrase[i+1]);
            strcpy(phrase[i+1], temp);
            flag = 1;
        }
    }
}

Now I don’t know I have a problem with my logic, and I wish to know if there is a function to sort easy way? or bubble sort is the easiest ?

UPDATE:

I will accept one of the answer below, but I have found my solution of how to sort my array in the easiest way.

while(pos < 9){

  if(phrase[pos][i] > phrase[pos+1][i]){


   strcpy(temp, phrase[pos]);
   strcpy(phrase[pos], phrase[pos+1]);
   strcpy(phrase[pos+1], temp);
   flag = 1;

 if(flag = 1){

    pos = 0;

  }


  }

pos++;

}

Answer 1

Using std::array, std::string, and std::sort…

std::array<std::string, 4> arr = { "Yeah?", "Tomorrow", "Again", "I will see you" };
std::sort(arr.begin(), arr.end());

This can also be trivially adapted to use C arrays or std::vectors if you don’t have access to std::array.