Case Insensitive Alphabetical Bubble Sort

[Randeh]

Here's my working code for simple a 2-D alphabetical bubble sort. All I need now is to just make it case insensitive (ignores capitalization) and I've been trying to throw toupper or tolower in there but it never seems to work properly. Any ideas?

void SortArray(char Array[MaxNames][MaxChars], int pass)
{
      bool swap;
      int temp[MaxChars];
 
      do {
           swap=false;
           for (i=0; i<pass-1; i++)
    {
    if (strcmp(Array[i], Array[i+1])>0)
         for(j=0; j<MaxChars-1; j++)
                             {
        temp[j]=Array[i][j];
        Array[i][j]=Array[i+1][j];
        Array[i+1][j]=temp[j];
        swap=true;
             }
                  }
            }  while(swap);
}
 

[RedSon]

Here's my working code for simple a 2-D alphabetical bubble sort. All I need now is to just make it case insensitive (ignores capitalization) and I've been trying to throw toupper or tolower in there but it never seems to work properly. Any ideas?

void SortArray(char Array[MaxNames][MaxChars], int pass)
{
      bool swap;
      int temp[MaxChars];
 
      do {
           swap=false;
           for (i=0; i<pass-1; i++)
    {
    if (strcmp(Array[i], Array[i+1])>0)
         for(j=0; j<MaxChars-1; j++)
                             {
        temp[j]=Array[i][j];
        Array[i][j]=Array[i+1][j];
        Array[i+1][j]=temp[j];
        swap=true;
             }
                  }
            }  while(swap);
}
 

In this area:

...
if (strcmp(Array[i], Array[i+1])>0)
         for(j=0; j<MaxChars-1; j++)
                             {
...
 

you will want to do something like this:

if (strcmp(Array[i].toLower(), Array[i+1].toLower())>0)
         for(j=0; j<MaxChars-1; j++)
                             {
 

[Randeh]

That's the part I'd though of but when I do that:

if (strcmp(tolower(Array[i]) , tolower(Array[i+1])) >0)
     for(j=0; j<MaxChars-1; j++)
 

I get two errors on each of the tolower expressions, both of which are:
error C2664: 'tolower' : cannot convert parameter 1 from 'char [16]' to 'int'

I'm not sure how to bypass this, to be honest.

[RedSon]

Try something like this

toLower((int)Array[i])) You need type cast it.

[Randeh]

Still trying to get it to work. Nothing like feeling retarded to encourage your comprehension of a language. =( But I feel like there's a more simple, if not roundabout answer staring me right in the face.

[Randeh]

I bypassed the entire thing like this:

void SortArray(char Array[MaxNames][MaxChars], int pass)
     {
     bool swap;
     char temp[MaxChars];
     int k=0;
 
     do {
          swap=false;
           for (i=0; i<pass-1; i++)
                {
                for (k=0; k<MaxChars-1; k++)
                    if (tolower(Array[i][k]) > tolower(Array[i+1][k]))
                         for (j=0; j<MaxChars-1; j++)
                             {
                 temp[j]=Array[i][j];
                 Array[i][j]=Array[i+1][j];
                 Array[i+1][j]=temp[j];
                 swap=true;
                 }
       }
             }  while(swap);
     }
 

But for some reason it only works for 4 names. Any amount over 4 names and it just hangs up on the sorting for some reason... never even prints anything beyond the UNSORTED section.

[RedSon]

I bypassed the entire thing like this:

void SortArray(char Array[MaxNames][MaxChars], int pass)
     {
     bool swap;
     char temp[MaxChars];
     int k=0;
 
     do {
          swap=false;
           for (i=0; i<pass-1; i++)
                {
                for (k=0; k<MaxChars-1; k++)
                    if (tolower(Array[i][k]) > tolower(Array[i+1][k]))
                         for (j=0; j<MaxChars-1; j++)
                             {
                 temp[j]=Array[i][j];
                 Array[i][j]=Array[i+1][j];
                 Array[i+1][j]=temp[j];
                 swap=true;
                 }
       }
             }  while(swap);
     }
 

But for some reason it only works for 4 names. Any amount over 4 names and it just hangs up on the sorting for some reason... never even prints anything beyond the UNSORTED section.

Thats pretty odd!