I have some data which I need to print, for simplicity lets say it is a container (vector) of people which have some parameters. In different parts of my program, I need to print all of them sorted by different parameter. My question are
1.) which container to choose? (personally I chose vector).
2.) What approach is better, sort whole vector every time or it is better to make a copy of that vector and save it sorted? In my solution I sorted the same vector every time, but maybe it is not a correct approach with huge vectors because of speed.
class Person
{
private:
std::string name;
std::string surname;
int age;
public:
Person(std::string name, std::string surname, int age) : name{ name }, surname{ surname }, age{ age } {};
void print() { std::cout << name << " " << surname << " " << age << std::endl; };
static bool sortName(Person const &A, Person const &B) { return A.name < B.name; };
static bool sortSurname(Person const &A, Person const &B) { return A.surname < B.surname; };
static bool sortAge(Person const &A, Person const &B) { return A.age < B.age; };
};
main:
int main()
{
std::vector<Person> persons;
Person person1("John", "Smith", 30);
Person person2("Mark", "Cooper", 28);
Person person3("George", "Orwell", 19);
persons.push_back(person1);
persons.push_back(person2);
persons.push_back(person3);
std::sort(persons.begin(), persons.end(), Person::sortSurname);
for (int i = 0; i < persons.size(); ++i)
{
persons[i].print();
}
// do some other stuff here ... and then ...
std::sort(persons.begin(), persons.end(), Person::sortName);
for (int i = 0; i < persons.size(); ++i)
{
persons[i].print();
}
// do some other stuff here ... and then ...
std::sort(persons.begin(), persons.end(), Person::sortAge);
for (int i = 0; i < persons.size(); ++i)
{
persons[i].print();
}
return 0;
}