counting sort algorithm
// C++ Program for counting sort
#include <bits/stdc++.h>
using namespace std;
// The main function that sort
// the given string arr[] in
// alphabatical order
void countSort(char arr[])
{
// The output character array
// that will have sorted arr
char output[strlen(arr)];
// Create a count array to store count of inidividul
// characters and initialize count array as 0
int count[RANGE + 1], i;
memset(count, 0, sizeof(count));
// Store count of each character
for (i = 0; arr[i]; ++i)
++count[arr[i]];
// Change count[i] so that count[i] now contains actual
// position of this character in output array
for (i = 1; i <= RANGE; ++i)
count[i] += count[i - 1];
// Build the output character array
for (i = 0; arr[i]; ++i) {
output[count[arr[i]] - 1] = arr[i];
--count[arr[i]];
}
/*
For Stable algorithm
for (i = sizeof(arr)-1; i>=0; --i)
{
output[count[arr[i]]-1] = arr[i];
--count[arr[i]];
}
*/
// Copy the output array to arr, so that arr now
// contains sorted characters
for (i = 0; arr[i]; ++i)
arr[i] = output[i];
}
// Driver code
int main()
{
char arr[] = "geeksforgeeks";
countSort(arr);
cout << "Sorted character array is " << arr;
return 0;
}