Computer Science Canada

im totally lost
Author:  chipmiester [ Thu Nov 10, 2005 7:41 pm ]
Post subject:  im totally lost
ok i have no clue as to how i would do this. how would i be able to sort names entered alphabetically? example: if i enter compsci it would put it on a list of a-h names only and if i enter zebra it will go on the second list of i-z. all i need to know would be how to sort them. i can program it to accept user input and the if...end if thing with elsif. (thats what were learning at the moment) so will anyone be able to help me sort inputted names with the if..end if command (with elsif)
Author:  iker [ Thu Nov 10, 2005 8:04 pm ]
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You should know not to help for school work on this site, but its a very simple program anyways...

code:

var word : string
var ah,iz : int
loop
    put "enter a word, exit with 1"
    get word
    if word = '1' then
        exit
    elsif word <i then
        ah+= word + " "
    elsif word >h then
        iz += word + " "
    end if
end loop

this will get all of your words, then output them in the order that you gave them Very Happy
Author:  chipmiester [ Thu Nov 10, 2005 8:12 pm ]
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lol i know that does that but how do i sort by alphabet (one list A-H other one I-Z) we were not taught this yet
Author:  Tony [ Thu Nov 10, 2005 10:38 pm ]
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you can compare words to each other
Turing:

put "compsci" < "i"

that should result in true, which you could use in an if statement to determine that your word ("compsci" in this case) comes before letter "i" alphabetically.

watch out for upper case, those letters have different values. You should make sure that both words are of the same case before comparing, so a function such as toupper() would be of use.
Author:  [Gandalf] [ Thu Nov 10, 2005 10:43 pm ]
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No need to remake what you already have... Str.Upper() or Str.Lower()
Author:  do_pete [ Fri Nov 11, 2005 11:20 am ]
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yeah bu some older versions of Turing don't have Str.Upper or Str.Lower
Author:  xtreemboarder [ Wed Nov 16, 2005 1:56 am ]
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iker wrote:
You should know not to help for school work on this site, but its a very simple program anyways...

code:

var word : string
var ah,iz : int
loop
    put "enter a word, exit with 1"
    get word
    if word = '1' then
        exit
    elsif word <i then
        ah+= word + " "
    elsif word >h then
        iz += word + " "
    end if
end loop

this will get all of your words, then output them in the order that you gave them Very Happy


program wouldnt work bud. cant assign an int to equal a string. Wink
Author:  iker [ Wed Nov 16, 2005 5:14 pm ]
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sorry, it should say string, but anyways, its a miner error from days ago..., and it wasn't even what he wanted...

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