[gsewell]

My aim is to write a program that will accept a file from the command-line, sort that file's lines of text into alphabetical order, and output to STDOUT.

The closest thing I have is a way to sort arguments themselves, like so:

#include <stdlib.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>

int main (int argc, char *argv[])
{
	int i, comp;
	for(i = 0; i < argc; i++)
	{
		if((comp = strcmp(argv[i],"c"))==0)
	{
			printf("Here is an argument: %s",argv[i]);
		
		else if (comp < 0)
			printf("%s is less than 'c'", argv[i]);
		else if (comp > 0)
			printf("%s is greater than 'c'", argv[i]); 			
	}
	return 0;
}

The text file that will be fed in as an argument can be sorted by it's first letter, or whatever is easiest, the part that matters is reading in the file and printing to STDOUT.

Thanks a lot guys and gals of <DIC/>
-G

[no2pencil]

http://www.dreaminco.../snippet488.htm

[gsewell]

no2pencil, on 23 Nov, 2007 - 08:09 AM, said:

http://www.dreaminco.../snippet488.htm

I spent an hour checking the snippets before posting. I needed an example a little closer to what I am trying to do.

Thanks,
Gary

[no2pencil]

I did not see any code in your project to actually open & close the file. That snippet should give you a head start.

Once you are opening the file, then you can start reading in the data.