Thread: Sorting 2 arrays of different type

Working on a program that reads in a .txt file with a list of stocks and stock data i.e...
Co. LO HI
------------------
AOL 40 48
HP 23 45
CSCO 18 60

I've created 2 separte arrays one the ticker and one for the data.
I need to sort the ticker array while also sorting the corresponding hi and low data. Not sure how being that they are of different type. Thanks for any assistance.
Here is what I have thus far

char *hold
if(stockname[w] >stockname[w+1])
{
hold = stockname[w];
stockname[w] = stockname[w+1];
stockname[w+1] = hold;
}

how would also sort the low hi data to correspond with the correct ticker.

Thanks
this was previously posted int the wrong board

it would be alot easer to sort them if they were in a struct or a class so when you sort one array the other array is in the same order, so if you sort it by high the the low and the name go with it. etc. etc

hope this helps
good luck
Skeptic

We are not allowed to use structures nor classes.

Thanks for the assist though

//assuming data is held in a 2D array of int of size [w+1][2]
//where w+1 is a constant.

int data[w+1][2];
char *hold;
int temp[2];

if(stockname[w] >stockname[w+1])
{
hold = stockname[w];
temp[0] = data[w][0];
temp[1] = data[w][1];

stockname[w] = stockname[w+1];
data[w][0] = data[w+1][0];
data[w][1] = data[w+1][1];

stockname[w+1] = hold;
data[w+1][0] = temp[0];
data[w+1][1] = temp[1];
}