Answer to Question #177962 in C for Tejareddy.Y

Question

Mr.x was making noise in the class.so,he was guven the task to arrange the boxes in an order.Each box is placed in each room. The teacher told him to arrange in ascending order.he has to compare the size of the box and arrange them.help mr X in the logic of sorting and generate a c application for the same.

Requirements:-

1.read the number of boxes.

2.read the size of the boxes

3.display the size of boxes after sorting

Answer 1

#include <stdio.h>


#define MAX_BOXES 100


int ReadBoxex(int boxes[], int size) {
    int n=0, i, box;
    while (n<=0 || n > MAX_BOXES) {
        printf("How many boxes? ");
        scanf("%d", &n);
        if (n<=0) {
            printf("I can't sort negative number of boxes. Try again.\n");
        }
        if (n > MAX_BOXES) {
            printf("Too many boxes, I can sort less than %D only\n", MAX_BOXES);
        }
    }


    for (i=0; i<n; i++) {
        printf("Size of box in room %d: ", i+1);
        box = -1;
        while (box <=0) {
            scanf("%d", &box);
            if (box <= 0) {
                printf("Negative box, really?\n");
                printf("Try again: ");
            }
        }
        boxes[i] = box;
    }
    return n;
}


void SortBoxes(int boxes[], int size) {
     int i, j, min_box, box;


     for (i=0; i<size-1; i++) {
        min_box = i;
        for (j=i+1; j<size; j++) {
            if (boxes[j] < boxes[min_box]) {
                min_box = j;
            }
        }
        box = boxes[i];
        boxes[i] = boxes[min_box];
        boxes[min_box] = box;
     }
}


void DisplayBoxes(int boxes[], int size) {
    int i;


    printf("Sorted boxes:\n");
    for (i=0; i<size; i++) {
        printf("Room %3d: %4d\n", i+1, boxes[i]);
    }
}


int main() {
    int boxes[MAX_BOXES];
    int num_boxes;


    num_boxes = ReadBoxex(boxes, MAX_BOXES);
    SortBoxes(boxes, num_boxes);
    DisplayBoxes(boxes, num_boxes);


    return 0;
}