[Sandals456]

Adak, on 11 February 2013 - 10:34 AM, said:

Sandals, do you want to:

*merge AND sort the two arrays into one array, at the same time, using a merge sort algorithm

or

*merge the array values first, THEN sort the array values, after they all get into one array.

In the first case, you would normally use a third array:

array 1\
        \
         -> array 3
        /
array 2/

But it CAN be done, it's just a bit more difficult to do it the first way, with only two arrays.

What do you need to do here?

I want to merge the two arrays and then sort them. I can only use the two arrays which is why array_1 has 18 elements and only 13 can be inputted, so that the other 5 elements from array_2 can be placed inside the first array.

[jjl]

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I want to merge the two arrays and then sort them. I can only use the two arrays which is why array_1 has 18 elements and only 13 can be inputted, so that the other 5 elements from array_2 can be placed inside the first array.

Alright, since your still struggling conceptually, here is some pseudo code. I can't really give any more direct help to the solution

Create two iterators, iter_1 to iterate over array_1, and iter_2 to iterate over array_2.

Iterate iter_1 from 13 - 17 & Iterate iter_2 from 0 - 4
set array_1[iter_1] = array_2[iter_2]

arrays are now merged