ascending integer conditions not always met

[patchouli81]

Hi all :) I wrote a code to ascend any three integers. Problem is the code does not output the numbers in ascending order all the time. What am I doing wrong? here is my code :

// This program will prompt user to enter any three integers and then out integers in ascending order

#include <iostream>
#include <cmath>
using namespace std;


int main()
{
	int num1,num2,num3;
	cout << "Enter the first number: " << endl;
	cin >> num1;
	cout << endl;

	cout << "Enter the second number: " << endl;
	cin >> num2;
	cout << endl;

	cout << "Enter the third number: " << endl;
	cin >> num3;
    cout << endl;
	  
	if (num1 < num2)
      if (num2 < num3)
	   if (num3 > num1)
	  {
	   cout << "The ascending order is: "<< num1 <<"  " << num2 << "  " << num3 << endl;
	  }
    if (num1 > num2)	
	   if (num2 < num3)
         if(num3 < num1)
	  {
	    cout << "The ascending order is: "<< num2 <<"  " << num3 << "  " << num1 << endl;
	  }
	if (num1 < num2)	
		if (num2 > num3)
	      if(num3 < num1)
		 cout << "The ascending order is: "<< num3 <<"  " << num1 << "  " << num2 << endl;
	  
	  
    system("pause");

	return 0;

[Disch]

With 3 numbers, there are 6 possible permutations:

ABC
ACB
BAC
BCA
CAB
CBA

You are only outputting 3


And you're approaching this the wrong way. Rather than trying to make a maze of if statements and copy/paste it for each permutation, just sort the data and then print it normally.

IE, if num1 is > num2, then swap num1 and num2. Repeat until all 3 are sorted, then just print them all.

(that is, of course, assuming you can't use the STL sort() function which would do this for you...)

[patchouli81]

thank you Disch