You are given an array of strings. You have to sort the given array in standard way (case of alphabets matters) as well as natural way (alphabet case does not matter).
Input : arr[] = {"Geeks", "for", "neveropen"}
Output : Standard sorting: Geeks for neveropen
Natural sorting: for Geeks neveropen
Input : arr[] = {"Code", "at", "neveropen", "Practice"}
Output : Standard sorting: Code Practice at neveropen
Natural sorting: at Code neveropen Practice
If you are trying to sort the array of string in a simple manner you can simple create a comparison function for character comparison and sort the given array of strings. But that will differentiate lower case and upper case alphabets. To solve this problem if you are opting to solve this in c/java you have to write your own comparison function which specially take care of cases of alphabets. But if we will opt PHP as our language then we can sort it directly with the help of natcasesort(). natcasesort() : It sort strings regardless of their case. Means ‘a’ & ‘A’ are treated smaller than ‘b’ & ‘B’ in this sorting method.
// declare array
$arr = array ("Hello", "to", "neveropen", "for", "GEEks");
// Standard sort
$standard_result = sort($arr);
print_r($standart_result);
// natural sort
$natural_result = natcasesort($arr);
print_r($natural_result);
PHP
<?php// PHP program to sort an array // in standard and natural ways.// function to print arrayfunction printArray ($arr){ foreach ($arr as $value) { echo "$value "; }}// declare array$arr = array ("Hello", "to", "neveropen", "for", "GEEks");// Standard sort$standard_result = $arr;sort($standard_result);echo "Array after Standard sorting: ";printArray($standard_result);// natural sort$natural_result = $arr;natcasesort($natural_result);echo "\nArray after Natural sorting: ";printArray($natural_result);?> |
Output:
Array after Standard sorting: GEEks Hello for neveropen to Array after Natural sorting: for neveropen GEEks Hello to
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