Alphabetical Sorting Of Strings

The next function we will look at is the "strcmp" or the string compare function. It will return a 1 it the first string is larger than the second, zero if they are the same length and have the same characters, and -1 if the first string is smaller than the second. One of the strings, depending on the result of the compare is copied into the variable "mixed", and the largest name alphabetically is printed out. It should come as no surprise to you that "Zeke" ins because it is alphabetically larger, length doesn’t matter, only the alphabet. It might be wise to mention that the result would also depend on whether the letters were upper or lower case. There are functions available with your C compiler to change the case of a string to all upper or all lower case if you desire. These will be used in an example program later in this tutorial.