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C Program to Sort the Array in an Ascending Order

This is a C Program to sort an array in ascending order.

Problem Description
This program will implement a one-dimentional array of some fixed size, filled with
some random numbers, then will sort all the filled elements of the array.

Problem Solution
1. Create an array of fixed size (maximum capacity), lets say 10.
2. Take n, a variable which stores the number of elements of the array, less
than maximum capacity of array.
3. Iterate via for loop to take array elements as input, and print them.
4. The array elements are in unsorted fashion, to sort them, make a nested loop.
5. In the nested loop, the each element will be compared to all the elements
below it.
6. In case the element is greater than the element present below it, then they
are interchanged
7. After executing the nested loop, we will obtain an array in ascending order
arranged elements.

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Program/Source Code
Here is source code of the C program to sort the array in an ascending order. The
program is successfully compiled and tested using Turbo C compiler in windows
environment. The program output is also shown below.

/*
* C program to accept N numbers and arrange them in an ascending order
*/

#include <stdio.h>
void main()
{

int i, j, a, n, number[30];
printf("Enter the value of N \n");
scanf("%d", &n);

printf("Enter the numbers \n");

for (i = 0; i < n; ++i)
scanf("%d", &number[i]);

for (i = 0; i < n; ++i)

{

for (j = i + 1; j < n; ++j)

{

if (number[i] > number[j])

{

a = number[i];
number[i] = number[j];
 number[j] = a;

printf("The numbers arranged in ascending order are given below \n");

for (i = 0; i < n; ++i)
printf("%d\n", number[i]);

}
Program Explanation
1. Declare an array of some fixed capacity, lets say 30.
2. From users, take a number N as input, which will indicate the number of
elements in the array (N <= maximum capacity)
3. Iterating through for loops (from [0 to N) ), take integers as input from
user and print them. These input are the elements of the array.
4. Now, create a nested for loop with i and j as iterators.
5. Start the sorting in ascending order by extracting each element at position i
of outer loop.
6. This element is being compared to every element from position i+1 to size-1
(means all elements present below this extracted element)
7. In case any of the extracted element is greater than the element below it,
then these two interchange their position, else the loop continues.
8. After this nested loop gets executed, we get all the elements of the array
sorted in ascending order.

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Runtime Test Cases

Enter the value of N

6
Enter the numbers
3
78
90
456
780
200
The numbers arranged in ascending order are given below
3
78
90
200
456
780
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