Solving a C++ Problem: Sorting Last Names in Alphabetical Order

[z-component]

[SOLVED] C++ problem

I'm trying to make a structure of 4 elements to store an array of items. I'm trying to sort the lastName element in alphabetical, ascending order, but I keep getting errors around the last for loop. Can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong?

#include "stdafx.h"
#include <iostream>
#include <string>
#include <fstream>

using namespace std;

struct student {
	string firstName;
	string lastName;
	double GPA;
	int studentID;
};

int main()
{
	student s[10];

	ifstream in("people.txt");
	int numStudents = 0;

	const int size = 7;

	bool flag = true;
	for (int endIndex = size - 1; endIndex > 1 && flag; endIndex--) {
		flag = false;
		for (int startIndex = 0; startIndex < endIndex; startIndex++) {
			if (s[startIndex + 1].lastName < s[startIndex].lastName) {
				// adjacent elements in the array are out of order - swap them
				string temp = s[startIndex];
				s[startIndex] = s[startIndex + 1];
				s[startIndex + 1] = temp;
				flag = true; // set flag to show we have to continue...
				
			}
	}
	return 0;
}

 

[verty]

You keep getting errors? Does that mean you have run the algorithm and it doesn't sort the list correctly, or does it mean that it doesn't run?

I can see an extremely elementary error, any good IDE would show it.

 

[z-component]

The program doesn't run at all. What is the error you found? Sometimes I got it to stop erring but then whenever I tried outputting I got more errors.

 

[Your.Master]

[b][u]student[/u][/b] s[10];

[...]

[b][u]string[/u][/b] temp = s[startIndex];
s[startIndex] = s[startIndex + 1];
s[startIndex + 1] = temp;
}

Can you do this? Do you want to?

 

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I got it to work. Thanks everyone.