ASCII sort

Computer Science Level 3

Which sorting technique is most efficient for sorting a string that contains ASCII characters?

Quick sort Counting sort Merge sort Heap sort

Beakal Tiliksew by Beakal Tiliksew , 24, Ethiopia

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Since there are only 255 values possible for each entry, counting sort seems the simplest thing to do.

However, it is not clear why one would want to sort the characters in a string

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Lets they you have various files in your folder with various names, numbers and characters. How would your operating system sort them them from top to bottom?

Beakal Tiliksew - 5 years, 2 months ago

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The OS sorts strings. Not characters in the strings

Agnishom Chattopadhyay - 5 years, 2 months ago

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