i am writing a program, one part of this program consists of a function that needs to alphabetize 100 words (strings) that were read in from a file before, i am simply looking for a function besides (basic_string::compare()), some simple function that has a capability to put the words in alphabetized manner. Right now i am playing around with different string manipulators like strcmp(str1, str2) but it's taking me too many different checks and if statments, or maybe just a simple function that analizes every character of the string...???

i am also looking for a function that specifies where the output to the file could be placed, for example: if you want to put a string "hello" at the beginning of the 15th column of the 7th row...???

thanx
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You might want to have a look at qsort.

Lordaerom's suggestion is a good one. In C++, you can also sort using STL algorithms on data items with comparison operators defined.

As to your second question, "columns" and "rows" do not exist in files. If you want files to have these, you'll have to come up with your own format and enforce it. You can use fseek() with C I/O to skip ahead/back to certain bytes in a file, if they have already been written previously.

that's a really usefull advice, thanx

i am playing around with qsort() now:
i am using something like this...

void qsort(void *str[0], size_t 100, size_t 8,
int (strcmp(str[i],str[++i])
*fcmp)(const void *, const void*));

it doesn't want to work too well....hmmmm

what do you guys think...????

fcmp is supposed to be a pointer to a comparison function which you implement. A pointer to a function is just the name of the function itself, eg:

qsort(str[0], 100, 8, strcmp);

I don't know if strcmp is a valid comparison function, tho, because it needs to take certain arguments. It might be. Should be. Try that.

- taubz

strcmp isn't a valid comparison function.
The comaprison function is of the form 'int cmpfunc(const void*, const void*)', whereas strcmp is char* instead of void*. GCC at least doesn't like that.

qtest.cpp:33: converting `int (*)(const char *, const char *)' to `int (*)(const void *, const void *)' is a contravariance violation

What's contravariance? :)

ask the gcc programmers =]

Contra \Con"tra\
A Latin adverb and preposition, signifying against, contrary,
in opposition, etc., entering as a prefix into the
composition of many English words. Cf. {Counter}, adv. &
pref.

Variance \Va"ri*ance\, n. [L. variantia.]
1. The quality or state of being variant; change of
condition; variation.
(etc)

A contrary variance violation? =]. Against the proper allowable variance? =]

Thanks, that really helped.

- taubz

You're the one that asked.
Your sarcasm is not appreciated.

Sorry...

That is better!!