Sorting an array alphabetically in C#

Question

Hope someone can help. I have created a variable length array that will accept several name inputs. I now want to sort the array in alphabetical order and return that to the

Answer 1

You can either use Sort as is if you extend Student to implement IComparable;

    struct Student : IComparable
    {
        public string Name;
        public int CompareTo(Student other)
        {
            return String.Compare(Name, other.Name,
                   StringComparison.CurrentCultureIgnoreCase);
        }
    }

...or you can pass a compare lambda into Sort...

Array.Sort(names, (x, y) => String.Compare(x.Name, y.Name,
                                     StringComparison.CurrentCultureIgnoreCase));

...or as a third option just create a new, sorted, array;

var newArray = names.OrderBy(x => x.Name.ToLower()).ToArray();