Arranging an Array in Ascending or Descending Order

[Sajjad Rahimi]

I'll be grateful if anybody could tell me how should I arrange the undermentioned array in ascending and descending order:
int ff[]={56,8,75,4,35,90,12,35,123,67,8};
Thanx in advance.
Sajjad Rahimi
Greenhorn
(rather DARK green)

[James Hobson]

Arrays.sort(ff);
See the API (as below):
sort
public static void sort(int[]�a)
Sorts the specified array of ints into ascending numerical order.
The sorting algorithm is a tuned quicksort, adapted from Jon
L. Bentley and M. Douglas McIlroy's "Engineering a Sort Function",
Software-Practice and Experience, Vol. 23(11) P. 1249-1265 (November
1993). This algorithm offers n*log(n) performance on many data sets
that cause other quicksorts to degrade to quadratic performance.
Parameters:
a - the array to be sorted.

[Sajjad Rahimi]

Dear Mr. Hoburn:
Thanx for your help. But it's a bit difficult for me to grasp, since, you see, I'm Java's DARKgreenhorn (very new to Java). I'll appreciate having proper coding for this purpose.
Regards,
Sajjad Rahimi

Originally posted by James Hobson:
Arrays.sort(ff);
See the API (as below):
sort
public static void sort(int[]�a)
Sorts the specified array of ints into ascending numerical order.
The sorting algorithm is a tuned quicksort, adapted from Jon
L. Bentley and M. Douglas McIlroy's "Engineering a Sort Function",
Software-Practice and Experience, Vol. 23(11) P. 1249-1265 (November
1993). This algorithm offers n*log(n) performance on many data sets
that cause other quicksorts to degrade to quadratic performance.
Parameters:
a - the array to be sorted.

[Cindy Glass]

int ff[]={56,8,75,4,35,90,12,35,123,67,8};
Arrays.sort(ff); // sorts in ascending numerical order and puts back in ff
Why would you sort it in descending order? Just read the array from end to front.
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Cindy Glass
Sun Certified Programmer
for the Java� 2 Platform
Co-author of Java 2 Certification Passport

[Eric Johnson]

don't forget to put
import java.util.*;
at the top of your file, or the compiler won't have any idea what Arrays.sort() is. i found out the hard way >;P