Question

So I’m having a couple of troubles with my code. For starters, I have this problem which is outputting all of the arrays. Mind you I have only been coding for 12 days and my teacher has somewhat skipped over the very basics in C# coding due to my college’s outlook on learning. AND I just learned that it doesn’t order them alphabetically…..

    static int inputPartInformation(string[] pl)
    {
        int i = 0;

        do
        {
            Console.Write("Enter a Name: ");
            //for the player
            pl[i] = Console.ReadLine();

        }
        while (pl[i++].CompareTo("Q") != 0);
        //if they write Q for the player it will quit
        return i - 1;
    }

    static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        String[] players = new String[100];
        Array.Sort(players);
        // Sort array.

        //defines players in this new instance

        var count = inputPartInformation(players);

        //for the portion of the code that handles the input

        //calculates the average score

        Console.WriteLine("List of People in Order: {0}, {1}, {2}, {3}, {4}, {5}, {6},", players);
        Console.ReadLine();
    }
}

}

Answer 1

• You are sorting before the names are populated; that does nothing.
• You are printing a single item using a fixed multi-item list of parameter references {0}, {1},{2} and so on; it is not going to work, and even if it did it would limit your output to the first seven items
• You do not know how many items to sort. Change void inputPartInformation(string[] pl) to return count (which is i-1), and use Array.Sort(players, 0, count);

The simplest way to convert multiple strings into a single string is by using string.Join:

Console.WriteLine("List of People in Order: {0}", string.Join(", ", players.Take(count)));