I am trying to sort a list of numbers from smallest to the biggest and print it. I've tried two things:
1.
public class Sorter {
public static void main(String[] args) {
int[] numbers = {1, 3, 8, 2, 5, -2, 0, 7, 15};
int[] sorted = new int[numbers.length];
for (int a = 0; a < numbers.length; a++) {
int check = 0;
for (int b = 0; b < numbers.length; b++) {
if (numbers[a] < numbers[b]) {
check++;
}
}
sorted[check] = numbers[a];
}
for (int c = numbers.length - 1; c >= 0; c--) {
System.out.print(sorted[c] + ", ");
}
}
}
and this thing works, but won't work with repeated values, so I tried this other thing
public class Sortertwo {
public static void main(String[] args) {
int[] numinput = {3, 2, 1, 4, 7, 3, 17, 5, 2, 2, -2, -4};
int[] numsorted = new int[numinput.length];
int n = 0;
for (; n < numinput.length; ) {
for (int b = 0; b < numinput.length; b++) {
int check = 0;
for (int c = 0; c < numinput.length; c++) {
if (numinput[b] <= numinput[c]) {
check++;
}
}
if (check >= (numinput.length - n) && numinput[b] != 0) {
numsorted[n] = numinput[b];
numinput[b] = 0;
n++;
}
if (n >= (numinput.length)) {
break;
}
}
}
for (int g = 0; g < numinput.length; g++) {
System.out.print(numsorted[g] + ", ");
}
}
}
Where it relies on the thing that once the number from the first array is used (the smallest one is found), it has to be ignored when the program goes through the array next time around.
I tried to assign it like null
value, but it doesn't work, so I assigned it to zero and then ignore it, which is a problem, because the list cant have a zero in it.
Is there any like better way to go about it? Thanks.
You can always use:
Arrays.sort(numbers);
tried it now but it doesnt seem to affect the order.
@Runciter What did you try because that should works fine.
Are you sure? Tested this myself:
Arrays.sort(numbers);
System.out.println(Arrays.toString(numbers));
oh yeah, it worked, sorry, i just printed them in reverse.), great! definitely worked!