box-o-sand/oldstuff/gnu-c/qsort-example.c

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/*
* C Sorting example mostly from qsort(3)
*/
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <libgen.h>
static int cmpstringp(const void *p1, const void *p2) {
/* The actual arguments to this function are "pointers to
pointers to char", but strcmp(3) arguments are "pointers
to char", hence the following cast plus dereference */
return strcmp(*(char * const *)p1, *(char * const *)p2);
}
int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
int j;
if (argc < 2) {
fprintf(stderr, "Usage: %s <string>...\n", basename(argv[0]));
exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
}
qsort(&argv[1], argc - 1, sizeof(argv[1]), cmpstringp);
for (j = 1; j < argc; j++) {
puts(argv[j]);
}
exit(EXIT_SUCCESS);
}