Question

Using C programming

I have a file that contains earthquake data that I will copy and paste below. I want to use either bubble or insertion sort to sort the file by latitude in ascending order, then create a new file containing the sorted data.

example file to sort:

time,latitude,longitude,depth,mag,magType,nst,gap,dmin,rms,net
2020-10-17T17:22:03.840Z,32.877,-116.2991667,0.31,1.16,ml,21,119,0.07747,0.26,ci
2020-10-17T17:17:29.980Z,34.1611667,-116.452,2.75,0.87,ml,17,66,0.05224,0.22,ci
2020-10-17T17:03:54.460Z,33.5396667,-116.4613333,8.66,0.63,ml,18,126,0.06084,0.16,ci
2020-10-17T16:55:01.080Z,63.254,-151.5232,8,1.4,ml,,,,0.9,ak

Answer 1

CODE -

#include<stdio.h>

#include<string.h>

#include<stdlib.h>

// Structure to store various contents of the file

struct earthquake

{

    char beg[100];      // To store the content of file before latitude

    float latitude;     // To store the latitude

    char end[200];      // To store the contents of the file after the latitude part

} quakes[100];

int main()

{

    // Opening files

    FILE *infile = fopen("earthquake.txt", "r");

    FILE *outfile = fopen("sorted_quake.txt", "w");

    // Creating a temporary struct of the type earthquake

    struct earthquake temp;

    char ch;

    int i=0;

    char header[100];

    // Reading the header i.e. column names from the file

    fscanf(infile, "%s", header);

    // Writing the header to the output file

    fprintf(outfile, "%s\n", header);

    ch = fgetc(infile);

    char line[200];

    // Loop to run till end of file is reached

    while(ch != EOF)

    {

        // Reading a line of the file

        fscanf(infile, "%s", line);

        

        // Splitting the line into three parts by first and second comma

        // and storing the parts into respective elements of the structure

        strcpy(quakes[i].beg, strtok(line, ","));

        quakes[i].latitude =  atof(strtok(NULL,","));

        strcpy(quakes[i].end, strtok(NULL, ""));

        ch = fgetc(infile);

        i++;

    }

    int size = i;

    // Bubble sort implementation to sort the earthquakes data in ascending order based on latitude.

    for(i=1; i<size; i++)

        for(int j=0; j<size-i; j++)

            if (quakes[j+1].latitude < quakes[j].latitude)

            {

                temp = quakes[j];

                quakes[j] = quakes[j+1];

                quakes[j+1] = temp;

            }

    

    // Writing the sorted data of earthquakes to the output file.

    for(i=0; i<size; i++)

        fprintf(outfile, "%s,%f,%s\n", quakes[i].beg, quakes[i].latitude, quakes[i].end);

    

    return 0;

}

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