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I tried to sort words from an array but it doesn't work


The problem is it gives the words out like this:

zahlen zahlen z y wörter w sondern sind standard s r keine k junge j i hello hilla h g f e die diese bbbb bbba bbba a

From z to a but for example the position of the words "hello" and "hilla" should been changed and I don't know why they are like this.

I know there is a compareTo function for characters. I would like to know why this is sorting the words in the array incorrectly.

using System;
using System.Collections;

namespace WortArraySortieren
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            Console.WriteLine("hello junge die standard zahlen sind keine zahlen sondern diese wörter hier ");

            string[] wordlist = new string[] {"hello","die","standard","zahlen","sind","keine","zahlen","sondern","diese","wörter","hilla","a", "bbba", "bbbb", "bbba", "e", "f", "g", "h", "i", "j", "s", "w", "k", "z", "r", "y" };
            int length = wordlist.Length;

            for (int m = 0; m < wordlist.Length; m++)
            {
                for (int i = 0; i < wordlist.Length - 1; i++)
                {
                    string a = wordlist[i];
                    string b = wordlist[i + 1];

                    for (int e = 0; e < a.Length && e < b.Length;e++ )
                    {
                        char letter0 = a[e];
                        char letter1 = b[e];

                        if (letter0 < letter1)
                        {
                            string temp = wordlist[i + 1];
                            wordlist[i + 1] = wordlist[i];
                            wordlist[i] = temp;
                            break;
                        }
                    }
                }
            }

            for (int u = 0; u < wordlist.Length; u++)
            {
                Console.Write(wordlist[u] + " ");
            }

            Console.ReadLine();
        }
    }
}

Solution

  • Try:

    string[] wordlist = new string[] {"hello","junge","die","standard","zahlen","sind","keine","zahlen","sondern","diese","wörter","hilla","a", "bbba", "bbbb", "bbba", "e", "f", "g", "h", "i", "j", "s", "w", "k", "z", "r", "y" };
    
    Array.Sort(wordlist, StringComparer.InvariantCulture);
    
    for (int u = 0; u < wordlist.Length; u++)
    {
      Console.Write(wordlist[u] + " ");
    }
    

    See https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.array.sort(v=vs.110).aspx for more details