Code challenge : Sort Words in a string (My code included)

Question

I'm longer than you! (By: Pixie)

Create a function sortWords() that accepts a string and sorts the words in it based on their respective lengths in an ascending order. If there are two words of the same lengths, sort them alphabetically. Look at the examples below for more details.

e.g. sortWords("I just ate an apple")
// "I an ate just apple"
e.g. sortWords("I have four apples and five pineapples")
// "I and five four have apples pineapples"

https://code.sololearn.com/c6Ptx0bCbGF0/?ref=app

Answer 1

How do we treat punctuation? If we ignore it, I have this one line solution:
https://code.sololearn.com/cvK1LAv8cneM

Answer 2

@Nikolay
It sorts alphabetically first and then by length. I think it should first sort by length and then alphabetically ascending.
(I hope I won't get killed here for criticising your code ^^ )
@Rishabh Same issue ;)

Answer 3

@Rishabh
I'm not good at c++ :) I know it only from university,
but I found some approaches at SO:
1. For splitting a string using vector, see
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/236129/split-a-string-in-c
(last code example)
2. Use std::sort (sorts alphabetically ascending)
3. Sort by length: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18831470/sorting-a-string-vector-based-on-the-string-size

Answer 4

Okay, I didn't write a method but I think that doesn't matter (it's quite short)...
So here's mine (Java)
https://code.sololearn.com/c5HDbgl4wynO/?ref=app

Answer 5

@Rishabh
Burey described the method:
1. Parse the string to an array using regular expression (or something else)
2. Sort the array alphabetically ascending (default for Java and Javascript, so calling sort() is enough).
3. Sort the array by the length of the strings
That's what I do with Java, too. Just translate it to c++.

Answer 6

@Pixie I tried making it using dictionaries, but I realised the problem in the end...

Tobi's program is better ;)

Answer 7

@Rishabh Yep, use @Burey's solution to sort alphabetically (still not working).

Answer 8

@Rishabh My input was
I ate an apple and

Answer 9

I done it in Python

https://code.sololearn.com/c73sqdK5F2vQ/?ref=app

Answer 10

@Tashi N, @Rishabh - fixed now

Answer 11

@Tobi @Tashi @Rishabh @Nikolay Well done guys, all the codes work for "The legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time" 😂
It's an honour having you here @Nikolay

Answer 12

here is JS solution

https://code.sololearn.com/WNAgbp9c2x8s/?ref=app

Answer 13

@Tamas Wow. That is awesome *__*

Answer 14

it's from Nikolay solution
i just added sorting by length after the alphabetic sort

Answer 15

Nice @Gami. 😊
Too bad it wont work with words of same length 😔

Answer 16

My solution in Java:

https://code.sololearn.com/cpiC38ei6Bq5/#java

Answer 17

https://www.sololearn.com/discuss/387579/?ref=app
Challenge #3
Sorry for deleting this earlier but somethin came up

Answer 18

Hell yeah!!!!
I just completed it
Thanks @Tashi, @Burey for your help
Can you check if it is working in all test cases.

Answer 19

@richard Well done 😊

Answer 20

New challenge
https://www.sololearn.com/Discuss/387024/?ref=app