My objective is to use qsort() to order the 70 element pairs of each of the 9 struct instances using the "rank" column.
I created a compare function although I know this will sort the set of 9 and not the elements within each instance. Do I need to apply qsort() on each of the 9 structs separetely?
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
typedef struct {
float rank[70];
char order[70];
}nq;
int compF(const void * a, const void * b) {
nq *orderA = (nq *)a;
nq *orderB = (nq *)b;
return(orderB->rank - orderA->rank);
}
int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
nq arr[9];
// code populates the 70 values of each array within the 9 element struc array
qsort(arr,9,sizeof(nq),compF); // this is wrong
return 0;
}