Thread: Trying to sort the values of a two dimensional array in ascending order.

Right now, the program is determining and outputting the medal standings in descending order, however, I would like to determine and output the medal standings in ascending order. I'm not sure how to change my program in order to accomplish this task, if anyone is able to guide me onto the right path, that would be much appreciated.
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public class OlympicMedals2D {
public static void main (String [] args) {

// Initializing variables.

String country[] = {"Norway", "Germany", "Canada", "United States", "Netherlands", "South Korea", "Russia", "Switzerland", "France", "Sweden", "Austria", "Japan", "Italy", "China", "Czech Republic", "Finland", "Britain", "Belarus", "Slovakia", "Australia", "Poland", "Slovenia", "Spain", "New Zealand", "Hungary", "Ukraine", "Belgium", "Kazakhstan", "Latvia", "Liechtenstein"};
String countryMostTotalMedals = null;
String countryMostGoldMedals = null;
String countryMostSilverMedals = null;
String countryMostBronzeMedals = null;
int medals[][] = {{14, 14, 11}, {14, 10, 7}, {11, 8, 10}, {9, 8, 6}, {8, 6, 6}, {5, 8, 4}, {2, 6, 9}, {5, 6, 4}, {5, 4, 1}, {7, 6, 1}, {5, 3, 6}, {4, 5, 4}, {3, 2, 5}, {1, 6, 2}, {2, 2, 3}, {1, 1, 4}, {1, 0, 4}, {2, 1, 0}, {1, 2, 0}, {0, 2, 1}, {1, 0, 1}, {0, 1, 1}, {0, 0, 2}, {0, 0, 2}, {1, 0, 0}, {1, 0, 0}, {0, 1, 0}, {0, 0, 1}, {0, 0, 1}, {0, 0, 1}};
int totalMedals[] = new int [medals.length];
int mostTotalMedals = 0;
int greatestTotalMedals = 0;
int mostGoldMedals = 0;
int mostSilverMedals = 0;
int mostBronzeMedals = 0;
int medalCounter = 0;
int row;
int column;

// Determining country with highest total, gold, silver, and bronze medal count.

for (row = 0; row < medals.length; row += 1) {

for (column = 0; column < medals[row].length; column += 1) {

totalMedals[row] = totalMedals[row] + medals[row][column];

if (mostGoldMedals < medals[row][0]) {
mostGoldMedals = medals[row][0];
countryMostGoldMedals = country[row];
}
if (mostSilverMedals < medals[row][1]) {
mostSilverMedals = medals[row][1];
countryMostSilverMedals = country[row];
}
if (mostBronzeMedals < medals[row][2]) {
mostBronzeMedals = medals[row][2];
countryMostBronzeMedals = country[row];
}
}

if (mostTotalMedals < totalMedals[row]) {
mostTotalMedals = totalMedals[row];
countryMostTotalMedals = country[row];
}
}

// Outputting country with highest total, gold, silver, and bronze medal count.

System.out.println("The country with the most total medals is " + countryMostTotalMedals + " with " + mostTotalMedals + ".");
System.out.println("The country with the most gold medals is " + countryMostGoldMedals + " with " + mostGoldMedals + ".");
System.out.println("The country with the most silver medals is " + countryMostSilverMedals + " with " + mostSilverMedals + ".");
System.out.println("The country with the most bronze medals is " + countryMostBronzeMedals + " with " + mostBronzeMedals + ".");
System.out.println("\nMedal Standings");

// Determining medal standings in descending order (I would like to be able to determine the medal standings in ascending order).

for (row = 0; row < medals.length; row += 1) {

for (column = 0; column < medals.length; column += 1) {

if (totalMedals[column] > greatestTotalMedals) {
greatestTotalMedals = totalMedals[column];
medalCounter = column;
}
}

// Outputting medal standings in descending order (I would like to be able to output the medal standings in ascending order).

System.out.println(country[medalCounter] + "\t" + totalMedals[medalCounter]);

totalMedals[medalCounter] = 0;
medalCounter = 0;
greatestTotalMedals = 0;
medalCounter = 0;
}
}
}
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You're not really sorting anything. For a simple sort try Googling - bubble sort. Wiki would be a good place to look. And write a small test program before you incorporate it into your main program (just to ensure you understand how it works).


And instead of working with several multi-dimensional arrays, I would recommend to create a class which accepts the country and the medals won in the constructor. That way, you won't mess things up if you change the order of the countries but not the medals (as you have it now).

Regards,
Jim

Can you post the program's output to show us what you are talking about?
Also post an example of correct output.

Please describe What values are in the metals array?

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