I have to submit an assignment in college. the program is: Create a player list containing player name, team name, batting average. For that first create a structure 'Cricket'. then create an array player[50]& store information in that. Then print the information team wise. e.g. all indian palyers shold be printed one after one, then australian players. Please help me!!

Since you have no code, none of us can help you in that area. I will make no effort in developing that part since you have nothing to show. I can however, suggest that you begin writing a pseudocode to get your program started. Your structure should look like this: struct Cricket { // members go in here. }; Do you know how to access these members in your program? If so then developing the rest of the code should be quite straight forward for you. 1) Declare your variables. 2) Prompt the user to enter names. 3) Get the names and store them in an array. 4) Print the team names to the console. 5) End of program. I am not sure what method C programmers use to get input from the user, in C++ it is "cin >>". Let me know if this is helpful to you. Also state your experience with programming. - Rolos

Indians play cricket? That's interesting. Thanks for listing your partial assignment, do you have an actual question? Us doing your homework for you will not help you get your degree, even if it did, you would not be productive in the workforce and couldn't hold a job. Perhaps, you can read your book... attempt the assignment and "call" back when you have a problem that you have actually tried to resolve on your own. IR

Dear Rolos, Thanks for yor respond. But my actual query is how to sort players by their team names?? i.e. if i enter 5 player information, 3 of them are Indians. 2 of them are australians. Then how to show output as: Indian team: player1 player2 player3 Australian team: player1 player2 Tha actual problem is sorting palyers team wise. I tried with strcmp() and if(p.team_name=='India') But it didn't work. Don't give me full code but atleast please tell me how to sort players by team names..

Dear Infinite Recursion, Thanks for your reply. Indians are born cricket players!! As you asked my actual question is as: Define a structure called Cricket that will describe the following info: 1) Player Name 2) Team name 3) batting average Using this info. declare an array 'Player' with 10 elements and write a program to read the information about all players. Create team wise list contaiing name of the player with their batting average. As you said i tried different books asked friends and seniors but no one was able to give solution. Tha actual problem is sorting names team wise. I tried with strcmp() and if(p.team_name=='India') But it didn't work. Don't give me full code but atleast please tell me how to sort players by team names..

Swapnil: Hmmm. It appears that you are knowledgeable of your string functions. You could approach this problem either the dirty way by using dynamic memory management (pointers), or getting away with brute force coding. Either way you will have to deal with a few things that you may or may not like. But it seems that the bottom line is getting this assignment done. I think your problem would lie in comparing strings that have variations in them. Such as if a user were to enter 'India' then 'INDIA' or 'InDiA'. Since your program will be doing many comparisons, this will be an obstacle. You will have to develop an algorithm that converts the entire string to either lowercase or uppercase. The toupper() and tolower() functions with array positions or characters as it's parameter. strlen() which returns the length of the string with the string name as it's parameter, would also be of great value to you as well. Secondly, after doing conversions to lower or upper case you should do some string copying of course. Store the team name inside of a variable that you will keep for future comparisons team names. Be sure that you are not copying the same string twice though. I do not know if you have knowledge of pointers, otherwise you could use that as well if you are good at it. Another thing to keep in mind is that you need to make sure that you take the necessary precautions to prevent 'out of bounds' errors as these will occur if user enters strings that are too long. Again, use strcmp() to compare two strings AFTER your conversions to lower OR upper case. If it returns '0' then it means that they are the same, else they are not. It should work if you use the tolower() or toupper() functions on your strings FIRST. Thirdly, I would suggest the use of 2 dimensional arrays. If you have not used 2 dimensional arrays before, they are declared such as array[50][20]. You will have 50 blocks of memory for each player to store 20 characters designated for the team name per each block. So in other words I have 50 players and I can write their team names up to 20 characters for each player. If you have text books on data structures, use them. They have many snippets of implementations of the string class and many other classes that you can change around and implement (sine you are only using structures in this case). But I think that the mainstay of your code will be coming from the use of mostly string functions. I did not like these kinds of assignments because there are so many ways to approach it. Experimenting is the best way to find out how things work. Research all you can on string functions and I am very sure that you will kick some serious ass in this assignment. IR: *phew* I think I just wrote another tutorial there. People will disagree in many areas with what I have just advised, but it's the most basic explanation that my mind can conceive. If anyone were to step into my mind for a look, it would be like walking right into 12 category 4 hurricanes. And that's only when I'm sleeping 8) - Rolos

Dear rolos, thanks for ur responce. As you said if user entered INDIA or InDiA or india it will not matter in this assignment. Well i can use string conversions but basically while submitting this assignment i will use only lower case characters as 'india'. i am giving the code which i am trying to work out: /*Program to create player information*/ #include void main() { int i,j,n; char *p[50]; struct cricket { int avg; char player_name[50]; char team_name[50]; } player[50]; printf("Enter the no. of players to be entered: "); scanf("%d",&n); for(i=0;in;i++) for(j=0;jn-1;j++) { printf("Enter the player name: "); scanf("%s",player[i].player_name); printf("Enter the team name:" ); scanf("%s",player[j].team_name); printf("Enter the batting average: "); scanf("%d",&player[j].avg); *p=player[i].team_name; strcmp(india,*p); } } but it gives an error that 'undefined symbol 'india'. when i tried to use if(*p=='india') it gave me an erroe that 'character constant too long' i have one idea in mind but don't know how to proceed with that: when user will enter team india i will check if string is 'india' or 'australia' every time in for loop. and if it is india then i will call the function india() that contains an array that will store player 1 info. if user takes australia then control will go to aus() function defined outside for loop. But the problem will ariese that it will print as follows: india: player1 player2 australi: player3 india: player4 i have a book called 'Data Structure in C' by Tennebaum but no solution found for that. Please help me.