Problem sorting an Array.
I'm sorry to say...I am completely lost. It's been a whole semester since the last time I picked up C++, and now I cam completely clueless on what to do here.
To explain what my instructor wants us to do:
He wants us to complete an exercise by writing functions for printing out, sorting, then printing out again, elements in an array.
The array in question is a String array. -and it consists of only five cells with names. In order as is, they are:
tom, mary, ann, bill, carol
He has informed us that the assignment and relational operators are overloaded. He also doesn't tell us in what way we have to sort it, but I am assuming it will be alphabetically.
I don't need the answer so much as I need a suggestion on which direction to take.
To explain what my instructor wants us to do:
He wants us to complete an exercise by writing functions for printing out, sorting, then printing out again, elements in an array.
The array in question is a String array. -and it consists of only five cells with names. In order as is, they are:
tom, mary, ann, bill, carol
He has informed us that the assignment and relational operators are overloaded. He also doesn't tell us in what way we have to sort it, but I am assuming it will be alphabetically.
I don't need the answer so much as I need a suggestion on which direction to take.
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http://www.cplusplus.com/forum/beginner/60381/ ¿same class?
That link has examples ¿what you don't understand?
That link has examples ¿what you don't understand?
What I don't understand is how that would sort the array alphabetically, since the array I am going to be sorting is an array of strings and not an array of integers or anything else for that matter.
I just now went through the code he gave us for the exercise... std::string has not been declared.
So...What? Do I bubble sort this?
So...What? Do I bubble sort this?
| std::string has no been declared |
Bubble sort is one of the most inefficient sorting algorithms. It's simple, but just not good. I'd recommend in looking into some others
@ne555:
. . . I don't think the instructor wants us changing what's already there. The Exercise is like a fill in the blank kind of thing. You fill in the needed code to complete the program.
@ResidentBiscuit: Well. The other methods seem really complicated to me. We never discussed them when I took the beginner class for C++ at the community college I go to.
. . . I don't think the instructor wants us changing what's already there. The Exercise is like a fill in the blank kind of thing. You fill in the needed code to complete the program.
@ResidentBiscuit: Well. The other methods seem really complicated to me. We never discussed them when I took the beginner class for C++ at the community college I go to.
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