Freaking arrays

Semester 2/Assignments/lab-2D-arrays-sort_CalebFontenot/pom.xml

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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
+    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
+    <groupId>com.calebfontenot</groupId>
+    <artifactId>lab-2D-arrays-sort_CalebFontenot</artifactId>
+    <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <packaging>jar</packaging>
+    <properties>
+        <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
+        <maven.compiler.source>17</maven.compiler.source>
+        <maven.compiler.target>17</maven.compiler.target>
+        <exec.mainClass>com.calebfontenot.lab.d.arrays.sort_calebfontenot.Lab2DArraysSort_CalebFontenot</exec.mainClass>
+    </properties>
+</project>

Semester 2/Assignments/lab-2D-arrays-sort_CalebFontenot/src/main/java/com/calebfontenot/lab/d/arrays/sort_calebfontenot/Lab2DArraysSort_CalebFontenot.java

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+/*
+ * Click nbfs://nbhost/SystemFileSystem/Templates/Licenses/license-default.txt to change this license
+ */
+package com.calebfontenot.lab.d.arrays.sort_calebfontenot;
+
+/**
+ *
+ * @author caleb
+ */
+public class Lab2DArraysSort_CalebFontenot {
+
+    public static int maxNumberOfColumnsInJagged2dArray(char[][] ar) {
+        int maxNumberOfColumns = 0;
+        for (int row = 0; row < ar.length; ++row) {
+            if (ar[row].length > maxNumberOfColumns) {
+                maxNumberOfColumns = ar[row].length;
+            }
+        }
+
+        return maxNumberOfColumns;
+    }
+
+    public static void printColumnMajorOrder(char[][] ar) {
+        int row = 0;
+        int column = 0;
+        int max = maxNumberOfColumnsInJagged2dArray(ar);
+        for (column = 0; column < max; ++column) {
+            for (row = 0; row < ar.length; ++row) {
+                if (column < ar[row].length) {
+                    System.out.print(ar[row][column] + " ");
+                }
+            }
+            System.out.println("");
+        }
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Prints row by row
+     *
+     * @param ar
+     */
+    public static void printRowMajorOrder(char[][] ar)//normal
+    {
+        for (int x = 0; x < ar.length; ++x) {
+            for (int y = 0; y < ar[x].length; ++y) {
+                System.out.print(ar[x][y] + " ");
+            }
+            System.out.println();
+        }
+
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Sorts the methods in ascending order using Selection Sort
+     *
+     * @param names the names to be sorted
+     */
+    public static void sortNames(char[][] names) {
+        for (int arrayDim = 0; arrayDim < names[0].length; ++arrayDim) {
+            for (int i = 0; i < names[arrayDim].length - 1; ++i) {
+                for (int j = i + 1; j < names[arrayDim].length; ++j) {
+                    // Compare all chars in string if first chars match
+                    char compChar1 = names[arrayDim][i].charAt(0), compChar2 = names[arrayDim][j].charAt(0);
+                    if (Character.toLowerCase(compChar1) == Character.toLowerCase(compChar2)) {
+                        compChar1 = names[arrayDim][i].charAt(1);
+                        compChar2 = names[arrayDim][j].charAt(1);
+
+                        // Note: I'm not happy with this implementation, but it works as long as you're only having to compare 1 other character.
+                    }
+                    if (Character.toLowerCase(compChar1) > Character.toLowerCase(compChar2)) {
+                        String temp = names[i];
+                        names[i] = names[j];
+                        names[j] = temp;
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    public static void main(String[] args) {
+        char[][] names = {
+            {'j', 'o', 'h', 'n'},
+            {'a', 'n'},
+            {'b', 'y', 'r', 'o', 'n'},};
+        System.out.println(maxNumberOfColumnsInJagged2dArray(names));
+        //printColumnMajorOrder(names);
+        printRowMajorOrder(names);
+        sortNames(names);
+        System.out.println();
+        printRowMajorOrder(names);
+        //printColumnMajorOrder(names);
+
+    }
+
+}
+}