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Added quick sort
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atishaya11 committed Aug 16, 2017
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#include <stdio.h>

/*Displays the array, passed to this method*/

void display(int arr[], int n){

int i;
for(i = 0; i < n; i++){
printf("%d ", arr[i]);
}

printf("\n");

}

/*Swap function to swap two values*/
void swap(int *first, int *second){

int temp = *first;
*first = *second;
*second = temp;

}


/*Partition method which selects a pivot
and places each element which is less than the pivot value to its left
and the elements greater than the pivot value to its right
arr[] --- array to be partitioned
lower --- lower index
upper --- upper index
*/
int partition(int arr[], int lower, int upper){

int i = (lower - 1);

int pivot = arr[upper]; // Selects last element as the pivot value

int j ;
for(j = lower; j < upper ; j++){

if(arr[j] <= pivot){ // if current element is smaller than the pivot

i++; // increment the index of smaller element
swap(&arr[i], &arr[j]);
}
}

swap(&arr[i + 1] , &arr[upper]); // places the last element i.e, the pivot to its correct position

return (i + 1);
}


/*This is where the sorting of the array takes place
arr[] --- Array to be sorted
lower --- Starting index
upper --- Ending index
*/
void quickSort(int arr[], int lower, int upper){

if(upper > lower){

// partitioning index is returned by the partition method , partition element is at its correct poition

int partitionIndex = partition(arr, lower, upper);


// Sorting elements before and after the partition index
quickSort(arr, lower, partitionIndex - 1);
quickSort(arr, partitionIndex + 1, upper);
}
}


int main(){


int n;
printf("Enter size of array:\n");
scanf("%d", &n); // E.g. 8

printf("Enter the elements of the array\n");
int i;
int arr[n];
for(i = 0; i < n; i++){
scanf("%d", &arr[i] );
}

printf("Original array: ");
display(arr, n); // Original array : 10 11 9 8 4 7 3 8

quickSort(arr, 0, n-1);

printf("Sorted array: ");
display(arr, n); // Sorted array : 3 4 7 8 8 9 10 11

return 0;
}

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