I want to alphabetically sort the struct strings with radix sort, however I am struggling to apply radix sort to check each digit of the strings. I checked other posts but I couldn't find a structure similar to mine. The problem is that my code checks for each ENTRY of the struct not EACH digit of the string in that entry. (By entry I mean; table[0], table[1] etc.) So basically it sorts the string in itself of each entry. I couldn't build the logic, can someone help me please?
EDIT: the length of the strings are not the same
Here is my code:
typedef struct FUNCTIONS_STRUCT
{
char *fncName;
void (*fnc)(char *);
char *description;
} FUNCTIONS_STRUCT_t;
FUNCTIONS_STRUCT_t FUNC_TABLE[] =
{
{ "ABCD", ABCD, "" },
{ "abcD", abcD, "" },
{ "EaBB", EaBB ,""}
//it goes on ..
};
// Function to find the Largest Number
int getMax(int array[], int n) {
int max = array[0];
int i;
for (i = 1; i < n; i++)
if (array[i] > max)
max = array[i];
return max;
}
// Function for Count sort
void countSort(int array[], int n, int dig) {
int output[n];
int i, count[10] = {0};
for (i = 0; i < n; i++)
count[(array[i] / dig) % 10]++;
for (i = 1; i < 10; i++)
count[i] += count[i - 1];
for (i = n - 1; i >= 0; i--){
output[count[(array[i] / dig) % 10] - 1] = array[i];
count[(array[i] / dig) % 10]--;
}
for (i = 0; i < n; i++)
array[i] = output[i];
}
void radixsort(int array[], int n) {
//Get the largest number to know the maximum number of digits
int m = getMax(array, n);
int dig;
//Counting sort is performed for every digit
for (dig = 1; m / dig > 0; dig *= 10)
countSort(array, n, dig);
}
int main()
{
int functionTableUnitSize = sizeof(FUNC_TABLE) / sizeof(FUNC_TABLE[0]);
radixsort(&FUNC_TABLE, functionTableUnitSize);
return 0;
}
I assume that the function names in your question have a uniform length of 4 alphanumeric characters. In C, identifiers can use 63 different alphanumeric characters from these groups:
Different encodings have a different order (e.g. EBCDIC lower case letters are sorted before upper case letters, while the reverse is true for ASCII). For a portable C programm we can therefore define our own lexical sorting order.
We can do this for example in a function called build_lexical_sorting_index.
Details
If one slightly modifies your code according to the above mentioned points, it looks like this:
#include <stdio.h>
#define UNIFORM_FUNCNAME_LENGTH 4
typedef struct {
char *fnc_name;
void (*fnc)(char *);
char *description;
} FUNCTION;
void ABCD(char *a) {};
void abcD(char *a) {};
void EaBB(char *a) {};
void A012(char *a) {};
void _ABC(char *a) {};
FUNCTION func_table[] = {
{"ABCD", ABCD, ""},
{"abcD", abcD, ""},
{"EaBB", EaBB, ""},
{"A012", A012, ""},
{"_ABC", _ABC, ""}
//it goes on ..
};
int lexical_sorting_index[256] = {0};
int lexical_index(int ch) {
return lexical_sorting_index[ch];
}
void count_sort(FUNCTION *array, int n, int char_position) {
FUNCTION output[n];
int count[256] = {0};
for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) {
int ch = array[i].fnc_name[char_position];
int index = lexical_index(ch);
count[index]++;
}
for (int i = 1; i < 256; i++)
count[i] += count[i - 1];
for (int i = n - 1; i >= 0; i--) {
int ch = array[i].fnc_name[char_position];
int index = lexical_index(ch);
output[count[index] - 1] = array[i];
count[index]--;
}
for (int i = 0; i < n; i++)
array[i] = output[i];
}
void build_lexical_sorting_index() {
int nr = 0;
for (int i = 'a'; i <= 'z'; i++)
lexical_sorting_index[i] = nr++;
for (int i = 'A'; i <= 'Z'; i++)
lexical_sorting_index[i] = nr++;
for (int i = '0'; i <= '9'; i++)
lexical_sorting_index[i] = nr++;
lexical_sorting_index['_'] = nr;
}
void radix_sort(FUNCTION *array, int n) {
build_lexical_sorting_index();
for(int char_position = UNIFORM_FUNCNAME_LENGTH - 1; char_position >= 0; char_position--)
count_sort(array, n, char_position);
}
int main() {
int table_size = sizeof(func_table) / sizeof(func_table[0]);
radix_sort(func_table, table_size);
for (int i = 0; i < table_size; i++)
printf("%s ", func_table[i].fnc_name);
return 0;
}
When the program is executed, the following is displayed in the debug console:
abcD ABCD A012 EaBB _ABC