Tuesday, 9 February 2016

C Program to Sort the N Names in an Alphabetical Order

This C Program sorts the names in an alphabetical order. The program accepts names & then sorts the names in an alphabetical order using string operation.

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/*
* C program to read N names, store them in the form of an array
* and sort them in alphabetical order. Output the given names and
* the sorted names in two columns side by side.
*/
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>     

void main()
    {
    char name[10][8], tname[10][8], temp[8];
    int i, j, n;
    printf("Enter the value of n \n");
    scanf("%d", &n);
    printf("Enter %d names: \n", n);
    for (i = 0; i < n; i++)
        {
        scanf("%s", name[i]);
        strcpy(tname[i], name[i]);
        }
    for (i = 0; i < n - 1 ; i++)
        {
        for (j = i + 1; j < n; j++)
            {
            if (strcmp(name[i], name[j]) > 0)
                {
                strcpy(temp, name[i]);
                strcpy(name[i], name[j]);
                strcpy(name[j], temp);
                }
            }
        }
    printf("\n----------------------------------------\n");
    printf("Input \t NamestSorted names\n");
    printf("------------------------------------------\n");
    for (i = 0; i < n; i++)
        {
        printf("%s\t\t%s\n", tname[i], name[i]);
        }
    printf("------------------------------------------\n");
    }

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