From: "Paul Ranson" 

You're learning C++ so you shouldn't be using the C library 'qsort'
function except in legacy code.

The standard library, which is part of C++, supplies a number of sorting
algorithms. I think you should start by learning how to use those. It
should all be in your book, alternatively use the documentation that came
with the compiler, although IIRC the VC6 stuff was a bit terse. Anyway the
important point is that 'sort' is as much part of C++ as 'class'.

Writing sorting algorithms should come later, in real life nobody would
ever do it except for fun (and a pretty odd sort of fun that would be) or
as part of a library implementation.

Paul

"Geo"  wrote in message
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> "John Beckett" 
wrote in message
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>
>>     // In practice, call the library qsort function.
>
> See now this is the part that really ticks me off, we were never shown a
> library function called qsort or even a way to find out if one exists.
> Seems
> to me library functions are one of the most useful features of C++
> compared
> to other languages but they have shown us nothing about how to take
> advantage of what's available. I can understand not showing us MFC but
> they
> could have at least allowed us to use functions or classes we find on the
> net.
>

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