Sorting algorithms/Cocktail sort
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Sorting Algorithm
This is a sorting algorithm. It may be applied to a set of data in order to sort it.
For comparing various sorts, see compare sorts.
For other sorting algorithms, see sorting algorithms, or:
Heap sort | Merge sort | Patience sort | Quick sort
O(n log2n) sorts
Shell Sort
O(n2) sorts
Bubble sort |
Cocktail sort |
Cocktail sort with shifting bounds |
Comb sort |
Cycle sort |
Gnome sort |
Insertion sort |
Selection sort |
Strand sort
other sorts
Bead sort |
Bogo sort |
Common sorted list |
Composite structures sort |
Custom comparator sort |
Counting sort |
Disjoint sublist sort |
External sort |
Jort sort |
Lexicographical sort |
Natural sorting |
Order by pair comparisons |
Order disjoint list items |
Order two numerical lists |
Object identifier (OID) sort |
Pancake sort |
Quickselect |
Permutation sort |
Radix sort |
Ranking methods |
Remove duplicate elements |
Sleep sort |
Stooge sort |
[Sort letters of a string] |
Three variable sort |
Topological sort |
Tree sort
The cocktail sort is an improvement on the Bubble Sort. The improvement is basically that values "bubble" both directions through the array, because on each iteration the cocktail sort bubble sorts once forwards and once backwards. Pseudocode for the algorithm (from the wikipedia):
procedure cocktailSort( A : list of sortable items ) defined as:
do
swapped := false
for each i in 0 to length( A ) - 2 do:
if A[ i ] > A[ i + 1 ] then // test whether the two elements are in the wrong order
swap( A[ i ], A[ i + 1 ] ) // let the two elements change places
swapped := true
end if
end for
if swapped = false then
// we can exit the outer loop here if no swaps occurred.
break do-while loop
end if
swapped := false
for each i in length( A ) - 2 to 0 do:
if A[ i ] > A[ i + 1 ] then
swap( A[ i ], A[ i + 1 ] )
swapped := true
end if
end for
while swapped // if no elements have been swapped, then the list is sorted
end procedure
Java
This algorithm sorts in place. Call it with a copy of the array to preserve the unsorted order. <java>public static void cocktailSort( int[] A ){ boolean swapped; do{ swapped = false; for (int i =0; i<= A.length - 2;i++){ if (A[ i ] > A[ i + 1 ]) { //test whether the two elements are in the wrong order int temp = A[i]; A[i] = A[i+1]; A[i+1]=temp; swapped = true; } } if (!swapped) { //we can exit the outer loop here if no swaps occurred. break; } swapped = false; for (int i= A.length - 2;i>=0;i--){ if (A[ i ] > A[ i + 1 ]){ int temp = A[i]; A[i] = A[i+1]; A[i+1]=temp; swapped = true; } } //if no elements have been swapped, then the list is sorted } while (swapped); }</java>