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Read in text file, sort it, then output to a file

Posted by Hmm on December 16, 2001 at 3:25 PM

> I'm swamped with work and I don't have time to work on this right now.. Would appreciate any help on it. This is what the program has to do.
> -create data file using a text editor
> -write program to open that file and read integers into program
> -sort integers into ascending order
> -send output to another file

Why do you need to write a program to do this? I think every OS has a sort tool you can call from the command line, even Mac OS X has unix consoles.

> help a nigga out, thanks

Huh? Welcome to the 21st century.