Thread: Help me sort the names in alpha order.

One lousy syntax error I cannot fix in a qsort

I am using a qsort to sort 12 names in alphabetical and ascending order but this error in the prototype stops everything, I cannot fix it.
Another question. From all the books I have read on C++, not one gives an example on how to search an array of string for a particular word; it looks like all the examples are geared to searching a numeric array. Any good search examples for character arrays?
Thank you.
Here are my codes and the error.
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-----Configuration: alphabetizeName - Win32 Debug-----------
Compiling...
alphabetizeName.cpp
c:\documents\desktop\badtest\alphabetizename.cpp(5 6) : error C2059: syntax error : ')'
Error executing cl.exe.
alphabetizeName.obj - 1 error(s), 0 warning(s)

The codes:
/*
first tested 2/2/02
Purpose: Sort in alphabetical order a list of strings of string array.
*/

#include <iostream>
#include <cstring>
using namespace std;
#define const elems 12
void showArray(char strings[][17], int);

int main()
{
char (strings[12][17]) = {
"Carl Billion", "Smith Birt", "Al Jim",
"Albert Jim", "Stan Karty", "Rose Amre",
"Bay Terr", "Johnson Erab", "Allison Carr",
"Jean Joey", "Will Bill", "James Gart"
};
cout << "The unsorted names are: \n\n";
showArray(strings, 12);


qsort( strings, 12, 17, (int (*) ( const void*, const void*) )strcmp);
for( int i = 0; i < 12; i++ )
// puts( strings[i] );
cout << (strings[i]) << endl;
return 0;
}


// function definitions ==========================
void showArray(char strings[12][17], int elems)
{
for (int i = 0; i < elems; i++)
{
for ( int j = 0 ; j < elems; j++)
cout << strings[i][j]<<" ";
cout << endl;
}

cout<<endl<<endl;
}

Try -

Code:

#include <iostream> 
#include <cstring> 
#include <cstdlib>
using namespace std; 

void showArray(char strings[][17], int); 
typedef int (*cmpfunc)(const void*,const void*);

int main() 
{ 

	char (strings[12][17]) = { 
	"Carl Billion", "Smith Birt", "Al Jim", 
	"Albert Jim", "Stan Karty", "Rose Amre", 
	"Bay Terr", "Johnson Erab", "Allison Carr", 
	"Jean Joey", "Will Bill", "James Gart" 
	}; 
	
	cout << "The unsorted names are: \n\n"; 
	showArray(strings, 12); 

	qsort( strings, 12, 17, (cmpfunc)strcmp); 
	
	for( int i = 0; i < 12; i++ ) 
		cout << (strings[i]) << endl; 

	char* found = (char*)bsearch("Will Bill",strings,12,17,(cmpfunc)strcmp);

	cout << "FOUND: " <<  found << '\n';

	return 0; 
} 


// function definitions ========================== 
void showArray(char strings[12][17], int elems) 
{ 
	for (int i = 0; i < elems; i++) 
	{ 
		for ( int j = 0 ; j < elems; j++) 
			cout << strings[i][j]<<" "; 
		cout << endl; 
	} 

	cout<<endl<<endl; 
}