Thread: Question

Hi everyone.
I am new to this board and new to programming as well.

The scenario is that
I am having to read lines of text (unknown lines) from external file and I need to sort them in alphabetical order ( lines consist of last name, first name, and jobtitle) and write to a different external file.
I am not allowed to use strings array but I am allowed to use
strcpy, strlen, strcomp etc..

I will read the first line as character array.
store character array to other variable array(?)
then I am lost. I think it's possible to use array of array?

Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks.

Post the code that you have so far.

#include <fstream.h>

int main ()
{
ifstream in;
ofstream out;
char str[];
char line[];


// Open the files
in.open ("cd.dat");
out.open ("prog5.data");

// Get data

while (!in.eof())
{
char str [81];
in.get (str, 80, '\n');
in.get ();

length = strlen (str);

for (int i=0; i<length; i++)
{
strcpy (line[i], str[i]);