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Published on 11 Mar 2020

Program to sort a string in alphabetical order is discussed here. Given a string, the task is
to sort the string in alphabetical order and display it as output.

For example, consider the following strings

Input: face

Output: acef

Input: focus

Output: cfosu

Solution to this problem can be provided in two different ways.

Method 1: Sorting the string alphabetically by swapping the characters of the string.
Method 2: Sorting the string alphabetically using standard library functions.

Program to sort a string in alphabetical order by

swapping the characters in the string

C C++ Java Python 3

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2 #include <stdio.h>
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3 #include <string.h>
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7 char string[100];
8 printf("\n\t Enter the string : ");
9 scanf(“%s”,string);
10 char temp;
11 int i, j;
12 int n = strlen(string);
13 for (i = 0; i < n-1; i++) {
14 for (j = i+1; j < n; j++) {
15 if (string[i] > string[j]) {
16 temp = string[i];
17 t i [i] t i [j]

Output

Enter the string : face

The sorted string is : acef

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Program to sort a string in alphabetical order using

standard library functions

C++ Java Python 3

1 /* C++ Program to sort a string in alphabetical order */

2 #include <iostream>
3 #include <algorithm>
4 #include <string>
5
6 using namespace std;
7
8 int main()
9 {
10
11 string s;
12 cin >> s;
13 sort(s.begin(), s.end());
14 for (auto c : s)
15 cout << c;
16 return 0;
17 }

Output

Enter the string : face

The sorted string is : acef

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