Given a structure array (in C) I am attempting to print out the results in groups of gender and in sub order by numerical order. For example:
struct employee{
char gender[13]
char name[13];
int id;
};
Say I define the structure array like so:
struct employee info[2]={{"male","Matt",1234},{"female","Jessica",2345},{"male","Josh",1235}};
How could I go about printing the results like
1234 Matt
1235 Josh
2345 Jessica
You'll need to implement a sorting function that compares the structs as you require
int compare(const void *s1, const void *s2)
{
struct employee *e1 = (struct employee *)s1;
struct employee *e2 = (struct employee *)s2;
int gendercompare = strcmp(e1->gender, e2->gender);
if (gendercompare == 0) /* same gender so sort by id */
return e1->id - e2->id;
else
return -gendercompare; /* the minus puts "male" first as in the question */
}
And then use qsort from the standard library.
qsort(data, count, sizeof(struct employee), compare);
Inside the compare function you may want to check for id being equal, then you can sort by name (also using strcmp()
) however you like.
Ken
Edit: Just compiled and fixed this up. Here's a little test program
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
struct employee{
char gender[13];
char name[13];
int id;
};
int compare(const void *s1, const void *s2)
{
struct employee *e1 = (struct employee *)s1;
struct employee *e2 = (struct employee *)s2;
int gendercompare = strcmp(e1->gender, e2->gender);
if (gendercompare == 0) /* same gender so sort by id */
return e1->id - e2->id;
else
return -gendercompare;
}
main()
{
int i;
struct employee info[]={{"male","Matt",1234},{"female","Jessica",2345},{"male","Josh",1235}};
for (i = 0; i < 3; ++i)
printf("%d\t%s\t%s\n", info[i].id, info[i].gender, info[i].name);
qsort(info, 3, sizeof(struct employee), compare);
for (i = 0; i < 3; ++i)
printf("%d\t%s\t%s\n", info[i].id, info[i].gender, info[i].name);
}
With output:
$ ./a.exe
1234 male Matt
2345 female Jessica
1235 male Josh
1234 male Matt
1235 male Josh
2345 female Jessica