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C Program to Implement BogoSort in an Integer Array

C Program to Implement BogoSort in an Integer Array

    #include <stdio.h>

    #include <stdlib.h>

    #define size 7

    /* Function Prototypes */

    int is_sorted(int *, int);

    void shuffle(int *, int); 

    void bogosort(int *, int);

    int main()

    {

        int numbers[size];

        int j;

        printf("Enter the elements of array:");

        for (j = 0; j < size;j++)

        {

            scanf("%d", &numbers[j]);

        }

        bogosort(numbers, size);

        printf("The array after sorting is:");

        for (j = 0;j < size;j++)

        {

            printf("%d\n", numbers[j]);

        }

        printf("\n");

    }

    /* Code to check if the array is sorted or not */

    int is_sorted(int *a, int n)

    {

        while (--n >= 1)

        {

            if (a[n] < a[n - 1])

            {

                return 0;

              }

        }

          return 1;

    }

    /* Code to shuffle the array elements */

    void shuffle(int *a, int n)

    {

        int j, t, temp;

        for (j = 0;j < n;j++)

        {

            t = a[j];

            temp = rand() % n;    /* Shuffles the given array using Random function */

            a[j] = a[temp];

            a[temp] = t;

        }

    }

    /* Code to check if the array is sorted or not and if not sorted calls the shuffle function to shuffle the array elements */

    void bogosort(int *a, int n)

    {

        while (!is_sorted(a, n))

        {

            shuffle(a, n);

        }

    }