Organizing a .txt file help!

[kunkunlol]

Hey there, I'm trying to organize a file that contains the name of the player, and his score.

ex:
kunkunlol 473
marc 94
Susan 134

I have 2 functions, one to read the file (will show the top 10 players like above), and another to write on it (like above too), after the player finishes the game.

Altought, I can't see a way to organize from the biggest to the smallest score!

Any help would be very welcome! Thanks.

[Excizted]

You will have to iterate through all the values and sort them.

By googling for half a minute I found this excellent piece of code to sort numbers:

sortme should contain the numbers to sort, and size should contain the count of numbers.

const int size = 0;
int temp;
int sortme[size];

for(int j = size; j > 0; j--)
{
    for(int i = 0; i < size; i++)
    {
        if(sortme[i] > sortme[j])
        {
            temp = sortme[i];
            sortme[i] = sortme[j];
            sortme[j] = temp;
        }
    }
}

Of course you will have to modify it a bit, so you can handle pairs of data (use std::map :)).

[mrnutty]

Create a structure :

struct Player{
 string name;
 int score;
 Player() : name(), score(){}
};

Define an extraction operator, to extract into the struct :

std::istream& operator >>(std::istream& inFile, Player& p){
 return inFile >> p.name >> p.score;
}

now create a vector of players :

std::vector<Player> players;

now define a binary boolean function to be used with std::sort.

bool sortByScore(const Player& lhs, const Player& rhs){
 return lhs.score < rhs.score;
}

Now read in from the file into the vector of players :

std::vector<Player> players;
ifstream inFile("filename.txt");
//error check
Player tmp;
 while(inFile >> tmp){ players.push_back(tmp); } //read all from file
 std::sort(players.begin(),players.end(),sortByScore); //sort it
 //now do whatever with the sorted player vector

none of the above is compiled, just an idea to get you started.

[Excizted]

Create a structure :

struct Player{
 string name;
 int score;
 Player() : name(), score(){}
};

Define an extraction operator, to extract into the struct :

std::istream& operator >>(std::istream& inFile, Player& p){
 return inFile >> p.name >> p.score;
}

now create a vector of players :

std::vector<Player> players;

now define a binary boolean function to be used with std::sort.

bool sortByScore(const Player& lhs, const Player& rhs){
 return lhs.score < rhs.score;
}

Now read in from the file into the vector of players :

std::vector<Player> players;
ifstream inFile("filename.txt");
//error check
Player tmp;
 while(inFile >> tmp){ players.push_back(tmp); } //read all from file
 std::sort(players.begin(),players.end(),sortByScore); //sort it
 //now do whatever with the sorted player vector

none of the above is compiled, just an idea to get you started.

Well that response was througough. Good job :)

[mrnutty]

>>Well that response was througough. Good job

Do I get a cookie?

[Excizted]

Sure, what's your address? :) Or do you have a 3D printer, then I could just do a 3D scan and send it over?