Hi,

I've been trying to find a way to order an array of players, scores and
totals by lowest total first... down to highest at the bottom and I can't
seem to figure it out.  I've read about the the Array.sort(), but the
examples I have seen show it used with single arrays and not 2d arrays, so
I'm not sure if this would work.  I have come up with the following
solution, however this does not sort the array correctly, as if the third
player has the lowest score their record is not moved.  Below is an example
of the sort I am trying to perform:

class Sorting {
   public static void main(String[] args) {
   //array that stores the results of the game
   //name, 3 scores and total
   String[][] results = {{"Fred","1","2","1","4"},
      {"Betty","2","1","2","5"},
      {"Wilma","1","1","1","3"},
      {"Barney","2","1","1","4"}};
   int col=5;
//Print out array before changes
   System.out.println("Array Before Changes...");
   for (int x=0; x < results.length; x++) {
       for (int y=0; y < col; y++) {
           System.out.print(results[x][y] +'\t');
      } //inner for loop
      System.out.println('\n');
   } //Outer for loop
 System.out.println('\n');

   for (int x=0; x < results.length; x++) {
      col = col-1;
      String[] tmp = new String[5];
      int temp = results.length-1;
      for (int row=0; row < results.length; row++) {
      //check total column = col//
      //If bottom record's total is less than the top record
      if ((Integer.parseInt(results[temp][col])) <
(Integer.parseInt(results[row][col]))) {
       for (int a=0; a <= col; a++) {
         tmp[a] = results[row][a];  //Copy top record to temp array
         results[row][a] = results[temp][a]; //Move bottom record to top
         results[temp][a] = tmp[a]; //Move temp to bottom of array
       } //closes temp for loop
     } //Closes if
  } //Closes row for loop
 } //Closes for loop1

//Print out array after changes
   System.out.println("Array After Changes...");
   for (int x=0; x < results.length; x++) {
       for (int y=0; y < 5; y++) {
           System.out.print(results[x][y] +'\t');
       } //inner for loop
       System.out.println('\n');
   } //Outer for loop
 }
}

I'm sure I'm along the right lines... but I can't seem to figure that last
bit out... so any help with this would be greatly appreciated, as I have
been trying to work it out all day long and it's now nearly 3am!

Cheers

Elaine