Thread: off by one and help with swap

yesterday I posted on this same code and for the most part your help was great. but no one answered this particular problem

i have a list of accounts, i need to place them in descending order, preferable while they are being entered.

there is the code i have so far:

Code:

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 void sort(int accounts[],double balance[], int& total)
{
    int index_of_next_smallest;
    for (int index = 0; index < total - 1; index++)
    {
        index_of_next_smallest =
                     index_of_smallest(a, index, number_used);
        swap_values(a[index], a[index_of_next_smallest]);
        //a[0] <= a[1] <=...<= a[index] are the smallest of the original array
        //elements. The rest of the elements are in the remaining positions.
    }
}
 */
/*----------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
/*----------------------------------------------------------------------------
int index_of_smallest(int account[],int NUMBER int account[0], int& total)
{
    int min = a[start_index],
        index_of_min = start_index;
    for (int index = start_index + 1; index < number_used; index++)
        if (a[index] < min)
        {
            min = a[index];
            index_of_min = index;
            //min is the smallest of a[start_index] through a[index]
        }

    return index_of_min;
} */
/*------------------------------------------------------------------------------
void swap_values(int& v1, int& v2)
{
    int temp;
    temp = v1;
    v1 = v2;
    v2 = temp;
}
------------------------------------------------------------------------------*/

also the off by one problem I was able to solve and we all missed it.
when i initially called up menu one - enter an account , an account was entered even before the loop started and index was not initialiazed.

thanks to everyone for there help, this is really helping me learn, especially when i see routes that others would take.

jess