sorting strings

[Wm E Davidsen Jr]

In article <4496 at blake.acs.washington.edu> jimmy at blake.acs.washington.edu (Jim Li) writes:

| What sorting algorithm shoud I use? Should I use the built-in 'qsort()'?
| How about mergesort and heapsort?
| (I want my program to run as FAST as possible!)

  One technique commonly used for sorting strings is to create a vector
of pointers to the individual strings and then sort the pointers. You
can then write or move the data is you must.
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