QuickSort in C#

Contributed by Smoke6969 On 6th January, 2011

This is an article on QuickSort in C# in C#.

A few days ago I had an interview on a c# programmer vacancy (already received a refuse letter

) On the interview I was asked to implement a QuickSort algorithm and I couldn't do that, so now I want to help you not to repeat my mistake and get the understanding of this algorithm before you'll need it.

Simple Algorithm

Pick an element from the list (usually the most left element is used). This element will serve as a pivot point
Reorder the list so that all elements with values less than the pivot come before the pivot, while all elements with values greater than the pivot come after it (equal values can go either way). This is called the partition operation.
Recursively repeat the algorithm for both halves of the original array.

That's it. Pretty clear as I think.

Pseudo Code

Here is the Pseudo code for better understanding:

Code:

function quicksort(array)
     var list less, greater
     if length(array) ≤ 1
         return array
     select and remove a pivot value pivot from array
     for each x in array
         if x ≤ pivot then append x to less
         else append x to greater
     return concatenate(quicksort(less), pivot, quicksort(greater))

C# Implementation

That's enough for theory, here is my implementation of this in C#:

Code:

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;

namespace sortQuick
{
    class quickSort
    {
        // this is our array to sort
        private int[] arr = new int[20];

        // this holds a number of elements in array
        private int len;

        // Quick Sort Algorithm
        public void QuickSort()
        {
            sort(0, len - 1);
        }

        public void sort(int left, int right)
        {
            int pivot, l_holder, r_holder;

            l_holder = left;
            r_holder = right;
            pivot = arr[left];

            while (left < right)
            {
                while ((arr[right] >= pivot) && (left < right))
                {
                    right--;
                }

                if (left != right)
                {
                    arr[left] = arr[right];
                    left++;
                }

                while ((arr[left] <= pivot) && (left < right))
                {
                    left++;
                }

                if (left != right)
                {
                    arr[right] = arr[left];
                    right--;
                }
            }

            arr[left] = pivot;
            pivot = left;
            left = l_holder;
            right = r_holder;

            if (left < pivot)
            {
                sort(left, pivot - 1);
            }

            if (right > pivot)
            {
                sort(pivot + 1, right);
            }
        }

        public static void Main()
        {
            quickSort q_Sort = new quickSort();

            int[] arr = {4,3,1,4,6,7,5,4,3,5,6,87,8};
            q_Sort.arr = arr;
            q_Sort.len = q_Sort.arr.Length;

            // Sort the array
            q_Sort.QuickSort();

            for (int j = 0; j < q_Sort.len; j++)
            {
                Console.WriteLine(q_Sort.arr[j]);
            }
            Console.ReadKey();
        }
    }
}

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