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For an assignment I have to sort a bunch of employees alphabetically by their department.

For example:

David
Hunter
1
Admin

John
Smith
11
Sales

Jane
Appleby
5
Accounts

Michelle
Page
12
Sales

Peta
Jones
13
Admin

should become

Jane
Appleby
5
Accounts

David
Hunter
1
Admin

Peta
Jones
13
Admin

John
Smith
11
Sales

Michelle
Page
12
Sales

I want to use a bubblesort for this but I have no idea how to get it to sort by anything other than the first name. This is what I have so far:

string[] people = record.Split(new string[] { "\r\n\r\n" }, StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries);

foreach (string person in people)
{
    string[] details = person.Split('\n');
    firstName = details[0];
    lastName = details[1];
    empID = details[2];
    department = details[3];
}         

for (int i = 1; i < people.Length; i++)
{
    for (int j = 0; j < people.Length - i; j++)
    {                   
        //people.department doesn't work
        if (people.department[j].CompareTo(people.department[j + 1]) > 0)
        {
            temp = people[j];
            people[j] = people[j + 1];
            people[j + 1] = temp;
        }
    }
}

Is it possible to do what I'm trying to do with a bubblesort like this, and access the department of an employee? Should I consider other ways that might be better/ more simple?

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    Why would you ever "want" to use bubblesort? Commented Sep 15, 2015 at 16:06
  • Do you have a List<People>? Commented Sep 15, 2015 at 16:08
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    Sort is not a problem here, your input is. You're parsing your input, but not storing it anywhere. Create a Person class, get a List<Person> and add all your data into it within first foreach. Sort that list instead of string[] you're trying to sort now. Commented Sep 15, 2015 at 16:08
  • Question looked like duplicate of stackoverflow.com/questions/1964234/… based on title, but turns out title is not related to post much. Commented Sep 15, 2015 at 16:14
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    @rmn36 He doesn't "want", his teacher "wants" :-). Have you noticed that the question started with "For an assignment"? :-) Commented Sep 15, 2015 at 16:18
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