I figured out how to read in the strings, but I'm not sure how to use bubble sort to arrange them alphabetically. This is what I have to far. I keep receiving the error "Segmentation fault (core dumped).
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
#define NUM 25 /* number of strings */
#define LEN 1000 /* max length of each string */
main()
{
char Strings[NUM][LEN];
int i, j;
char tempValue;
printf("Please enter %d strings, one per line:\n", NUM);
for(i=0; i<NUM-1; i++)
{
fgets(Strings[i], LEN-2, stdin);
}
for(i=0; i<NUM-1; i++)
{
for(j=0; j<LEN-2; j++)
{
if(Strings[i][j] < Strings[i+1][j])
{
tempValue = Strings[i][j];
Strings[i][j] = Strings[i + 1][j];
Strings[i + 1][j] = tempValue;
}
}
}
}
Use strcmp
if(strcmp(Strings[i], Strings[i+1]) > 0)
{
//swap elements
}
it will basically compare chars in strings and first not matching pair of chars, if it has greater value in first string passed to function, it will return 1.