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Thread: bubble sort and selection sort on strings

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    Default bubble sort and selection sort on strings

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    Default Re: bubble sort and selection sort on strings

    The output you show is sorted with case sensitivity. 'Z' comes before 'a'

    Show what you think the order should be.

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    Default Re: bubble sort and selection sort on strings

    Example output

    You display:
    As entered
    0:a:apple
    1:a:Apple
    2:z:Zone
    3:a:apple
    Bubble Sorted
    0:a:apple
    1:a:Apple
    3:a:apple
    2:z:Zone
    Selection Sorted
    1:a:Apple
    0:a:apple
    3:a:apple
    2:z:Zone


    I think that was just how the format to be but i am not certain...is there a code that can generate that output
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    Default Re: bubble sort and selection sort on strings

    See answers on the other forum.

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    Default Re: bubble sort and selection sort on strings

    Uppercase letters by default will always get sorted ahead of lower case letters (when considering case) because their underlying representation in Unicode puts upper case letters before lower case letters.

    If you want to sort the string such that B comes before b but B comes after a, you will need to implement the comparison method yourself.

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